Elections have consequences, that’s what they say. Maybe.

But sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter. So maybe not.

The Republicans won the recent midterms in something of a landslide. Yahoo. They don’t take office until next month but already the effects can be deeply felt.   Yeah, right.

There are Democrats and there are Republicans and there are other parties. There are folks on the left and those on the right and there are those who exist in between. There are many different people with personal and also institutional agendas who think that what they want can be gotten through normal political means and there are those who shed those means and take things into their own radical hands in order to achieve their goals.

And then there are the Washingtonians and the smaller kingdoms that aspire to be so. These folks also claim to be Democrats or Republicans or members of yet another party; left or right, liberal or conservative; calm folks or radicals; movers or shakers; people of the people. But they are really none of these no matter how hard they might try to convince us. They are the Washingtonians.

No matter how they arrived and no matter who they were when they arrived they wind up all the same. In the end there is no difference as they are all Washingtonians.

They simply work with the goal of keeping their jobs. Whatever it takes. But if they happen to lose their jobs through the undesired outcome of some election then they simply wind up turning that into something else- become a lobbyist, become a television commentator, become a political advisor, become a lecturer and tell people all about the stuff that you did that you really didn’t do. Recycle into the system. All that they care about is themselves. Seems to be the case with a lot of people in this country these days.

Nobody really gives a shit about this country anymore do they?

When we had Reagan we had hope; with Clinton, economic prosperity; Bush, international respect. What is it that we have now?

We have major issues with race relations. We have open borders. We have little apparent concern with the never-ending growth of the national debt. We have lost the global economic lead to China. China. We have an executive branch of our government that has decided the Constitution really doesn’t matter anymore. We are a joke on the international stage, no longer feared, no longer respected, no longer thought of as a country to be imitated. Islam is on the rise and we just continue to condemn Christianity and work tirelessly to finally remove God from our country. We have a popular culture that seems to have very little in the way of a moral compass- just do what you want to do (thanks 1960s). People in general just seem to not really care much anymore and if they do they mostly just don’t seem to know enough to have an informed and considered opinion. The liberal pundits were right, they ARE right- the American people ARE stupid I guess.

I gotta go now and happily greet the coming day but I will continue this soon. I am proud, still, to say that I am an American and I am cocky enough to add not a stupid one. I care deeply about this country and I am so sick of those who only seem to be focused on knocking it down perhaps with the ultimate goal of knocking it out.

But it ain’t over yet. We’re still standing, if just barely, and the final bell ain’t rung just yet.

Soon, maybe, but not just yet.