Post Election Day Thoughts

We've put the 2022 mid-term elections behind us,

and it's all over but the shouting. Your favorite Peasant 

is now going to do a little shouting myself.

What was supposed to be a red tsunami turned out to be

a red ripple. Yes, the Republicans won enough seats in the 

House to wrest it from the Democrats, and yes,

they dethroned Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker; she's no

longer the second in line for the presidency and is not the

second-most powerful government office holder in the 

country (thank God!!!). But instead of taking forty or more

seats to have a significant majority, they picked up less than

half that, and although the Senate races are not all settled

it looks like the GOP will have, when all is said and done,

picked up just one or two seats there, if any. The Senate 

could remain at 50 seats for each party, leaving the chamber

in the Democrats' hands with Vice President Harris in

the tie-breaking position. I haven't yet seen the final tally on

the gubernatorial races around the country, but sadly my

state, Wisconsin, has re-elected very left-wing Tony Evers

to a second term in the governor's office; yes, the knob who

was willing to let Kenosha burn to the ground during the riot 

in that major Wisconsin city in 2020, the year that such riots 

and carnage took place in many U.S. cities, all run by 

Democrats of course, many in states run by Democrat 

governors like Evers. Some other government officials

and advisors to Evers badgered him (no pun intended) to 

send the Wisconsin National Guard to Kenosha to quell

the riot and prevent more damage, and finally prevailed 

upon the governor to dispatch some Guard personnel to 

the stricken city, which they saved from further mayhem.

The honcho who did not add more staff to the department 

responsible for getting people their unemployment checks

when they applied at the time of Evers' lockdown mandates

when the coronavirus hit the state, causing many workers to 

be laid off. This resulted in many workers having their checks

delayed or not receiving them at all (your angered Peasant was

one of the latter). The Supremo (Stupremo?) who mandated 

schools and churches to be closed, and when schools reopened 

mandated the schoolchildren, all the way up to high school age,

wear safety masks to school, even though his administration

knew full well that the masks were ineffective against the virus

(as did many other Dem government officials in the other states).

Students fell badly behind in their schoolwork and their learning

while workers either worked from home (if at all) or, if they could

return to work at their places of employment, had to wear masks

and get vaccines, which also were not very efficient in keeping 

away the virus as it turned out. Workers refusing to get vaccinated

were faced with dismissal from their jobs. Families and friends 

could not gather together in numbers above a set limit in their own

homes (!). Restaurants, bars, pubs, theatres, and sports facilities

were either closed or severely limited in terms of how many people

could be in these places at any given time. And there were more 

such indignities and outrages as well.

Evers gave every reason not to re-elect him, but he had the good 

fortune to run against a candidate from the GOP who ran a campaign

which left much to be desired, including an accusation of sexual

harassment in his construction business to which he either weakly

or never responded to (if Tim Michels did respond I somehow

missed it). Evers won by 52% to 48% in the final vote, but a 

more aggressive candidate would have won the race easily, sparing

we Wisconsinites another four years of this clueless, careless, 

passionless, absolutely lacking in empathy elitist pig. Michels is an

honorable man, but he was a mediocre campaigner and candidate.

The attorney general's race was a close-but-no-cigar effort to unseat 

Democrat incumbent Josh Kaul, an AG with a bleeding heart for 

criminals but no empathy for their victims, nor any concern for 

the law-abiding citizenry. His refusal to enforce a 150-year-old law

on Wisconsin's books greatly curbing abortion was another reason

to send him packing, as it does no service to have an AG who will

only enforce laws that he approves of. 

At least we succeeded in re-electing U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, 

a Republican who has served two terms and came to the Senate

straight from his plastics manufacturing company, never having 

run for office before. He defeated, albeit narrowly, a radical left-

wing Democrat and current Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who is 

even more gung ho for criminals being treated with kid gloves and

a penchant for supporting taxes high and plentiful on the wealthy and 

the middle class while not paying his own taxes (property) and 

not paying traffic tickets, both going back a while. 

There have been mistakes, overlooked opportunities, failures, and 

insufficiently aggressive tactics in the campaigns of some of the 

Republican candidates for state constitutional offices and legislative 

offices, some of which have cost the campaigns victories. This has

held true for many races in other states as well. The Republicans did

indeed have some important victories and accomplishments

in the midterms, but with an overhaul of their campaigning methods

and practices they can have red tsunamis instead of pitiful little ripples 

or worse, painful defeats in races that they should easily have won. 

The GOP has two years to fix this, or else it's another four years

of ornery, elitist, demented Joe Biden or someone as bad if not

worse.

MEM