SEA CHANGE – The Rise of Normalcy

Once in a great while, when the average citizen is able (indeed, forced) to step back from the rim of history to reassess nature’s momentums, when meaningful course corrections are absolutely required, it is within these moments that history flows in a new direction. When the amplitude of public rectitude can no longer be bought off by the loud crowd we get what occurred on a recent Tuesday night. It was very much like what happened a hundred years ago.

In 1919 Progressocrat, Woodrow Wilson, fresh off the temporary settlement of the world’s problems, set out on a barnstorming trip across America in support of his League of Nations scheme. It was an overly ambitious tour, and it fell apart when his brain imploded. On October 2, 1919, in Pueblo, Colorado he suffered a stroke and quietly returned to Washington under the close care of his second wife, Edith.

Something similar is happening again. The confused President, Joe Biden, incorrectly assumes his progressive views are not hated by most of America. As the results of the November 2nd off-year elections clearly point out, the rise of normalcy around the country is becoming an irresistible force. In Virginia, the election of Glenn Youngkin as governor over Democrat Terry McAuliffe emphatically breathes new life into the moderate Conservative movement. Selling Progressivism has become an unenviable task; no one wants it. No one wants Donald Trump the failed man, but many like his policies. A tiny cadre of Progressives control too much thinking in Congress, but it is they who need to re-think their game.

This is an angry America. All shades of moderation, long shouted down by the squeaky wheel class, are lost in the wreckage. No sooner had Virginia’s stunning results been announced late Tuesday night than New Jersey and Pennsylvania weighed in with their own stunners, and Minneapolis, where law and order common sensers rode in to save the city from itself at the last moment. But back to Virginia, where race needn’t have entered the discussion, at all. A black woman, a former Marine, Winsome Sears (perfect name), delivered a sound common-sense campaign with gems like this, “In case you hadn’t noticed, I am black, and have been all my life.” Refreshing! She now sits a heartbeat away from the governor’s chair.

In local and regional races all over the country, results were similar. Sooner or later an abused populous will rise up and reassert normalcy. Yes, this is an angry America. Part of the McAuliffe losing strategy was itself a stunner (Paraphrase), “Parents have no right telling school boards what to teach their children.” Oh really? McAuliffe’s quip streaked across the country in a nano. Of 182 reformist school board candidates challenging the presumed establishment (rightly or wrongly accused of installing Critical Race Theory into the curriculum), 112 of them won nationwide.  An unkind, arrogant brand of socialism was peddled by suddenly super-leftist Democrats who will now please shut-up until next fall. And they can take their dog whistles, and race coding with them.

Disrespect is a powerful political force, and when multiplied by individuals from all over America, it is nearly unstoppable. Those of average intelligence, far from racists, of a good heart and soul and mind, are tired of hearing unfounded and hurtful accusations of everything under the sun. Election Day’s results prove the lavish over-use of such accusations did not attain the desired effect. Once again, Democrats paid, and will pay for their massive overreach. 2022 now looks wide open.