The Senate is a Coin Flip

Maybe I’m so deep in the doom that I’ve reached the ‘acceptance’ stage, but my mindset is basically this:

Democrats have done what they can. The turbulent economy is mostly out of their control. Biden passed a string of popular legislation just before campaign season. The conservative SCOTUS delivered a deeply unpopular ruling. Republicans nominated some of their worst candidates.

If Republicans still sweep or just take the House, then none of this was ever going to make a difference. Americans are just like every other peoples in history, willing to trade their freedoms away in exchange for fears and paranoias. We’ve already witnessed the peak of the human species and it’s all downhill from here.

Either way though, “it is what it is” and there’s little you or I can do. It’s very possible (likely, even) that the seeds for a fascist America were sewn decades ago, and this was inevitable.

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