In 2018, 2020, and 2022 the media and political polls predicted disaster for Democrats in those federal election years. As it turned out, after two years of the Trump ‘Drama and Whining’ Administration and Republican control of Congress, voters were tired of the constant gaslighting and lies. They were not tired enough to address the structural issues restricting voting rights. They did settle for putting the brakes on the absolute partisan rule of Republican populism in Washington D.C.
In 2018 the Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2020 the media and polls indicated Trump would win. The Democrats maintained control of the U.S. House and won 50 seats in the Senate. In 2022 the legacy media and political pundits told us about the ‘Red Wave’ that would wash away the Extreme Progressive Left. That wave never materialized.
It’s more than a year before Americans go to the polls for the next Presidential elections. They will elect their Representatives for Congress and some seats in the Senate. Right now, the media is bombarding us with polls about Biden’s popularity, Trump’s popularity, and which party is likely to win control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
It is all irrelevant. In early 2020, the polls did not indicate that Joe Biden could win the Democratic nomination, much less the Presidency. In 2022, Republican Christian Nationalist Conservatives on the Supreme Court used their majority to disregard the overwhelming number of Americans polled and take away the right of women to control their bodies, permitting states to ban abortions. The decision drafted by Samuel Alito will haunt the Republican party for decades.
The decision was rooted in Christian Conservative Extremism and corporate funding from wealthy religious idealogue billionaires and millionaires who used their money to bribe the Conservative SCOTUS Justices who lack the integrity to forgo overwhelming public opinion and impose views held by a minority of the electorate. The decision assumes that the American voters were willing to accept a ‘White Christian Theocratic Authoritarian Government’ instead of a Democratic Republic.
It is not clear that this notion is incorrect. Once Ronald Reagan drafted the Religious Right into Conservative politics as foot soldiers for the GOP agenda, Conservative politics/policies moved towards a Christian Nationalist Taliban of sorts. The proponents of this agenda incorrectly assert that the Founding Fathers of the country intended this to be a ‘Christian Nation’ governed by biblical principles, somehow rooted in misogyny, racism, and sexism.
They ignore the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which forbids the government from adopting a national religion. They disregard that it is unlawful for the government to discriminate against any religious beliefs, including agnostic or non-religious beliefs. They seek to impose a racist Christian Nationalist religious government on all American citizens.
The basic premise here is that the polling and opinions currently in the news do not show us where the American electorate will be in July or August of 2024. These views are conjecture. They usually fail to materialize once the voting is over.
My final point is that if the voters turn out, objectively engage, and participate in the election process, the outcomes typically do not resemble the views and polling we hear. We should have learned that if voters turn out, their votes change the reality of baseless opinions projected on legacy media outlets and social media platforms.
A Reasonable Point of View 