Grappling with an election outcome
Thursday, 10 November 2022 Abiodun Giwa
The major problem arising from the just concluded midterm election is that the control of Congress hangs in the balance. None of the two political parties has enough seats to claim power. Although the Republican party is leading in the House election, the party needs to acquire 218 seats to grab the gavel. The Democratic Party is not competing for the House leadership. It is pleased with its failure, believing the senate is in play. The outcome of the election has left everyone in confusion.
However, some representatives of the Republican Party, like Steve Scalise, have said through media that the party is sure to get to the winning number. Kevin McCarthy has said he is applying for the speaker post. The Democratic Party seems to have resigned to fate, believing, in the words of some of their leaders, that the ruling party always loses in the midterm election.
The ruling party has said it is sure to lose the House and retain the senate control. This emerged with the media reports based on polls that the Republican party has mementos and that the party may take the ruling to the cleaners. The information geared up the ruling party with an active last-minute campaign listing among its concerns the endangerment of Democracy if the Republican Party should win massively.
Rep. Jim Clyburn told the media that the history of political events that ended Democracy in Germany was about to be repeated in the United States. It was the primary reason he said voters should not vote for the Republican Party. He was not alone. President Barack Obama gave more power to Clyburn's historical lesson. He said that the danger to Democracy would be that reporters would begin to go to jail for reporting the truth.
President Obama reminded us of the Third World countries where Democracy is regarded by learned fellows as 'Democracy,' a corrupted version of 'Democracy' where leaders do and say what pleases them against the rules. But many people who have lived in Third World countries and have American experience are saying America's Democracy is already a form of 'Democracy' and that the type of one-party state favored by Democratic Party leaders is a hallmark of the Democracy in the Third World.
An observer asked this reporter if the Democratic Party leaders succeeded in convincing the electorate not to never vote for the opposition and only their party would protect Democracy, would the result not be a one-party-state arrangement? Politicians everywhere use all sorts of gaming to catch votes, careless of the repercussion.
There is a difference between saying the truth and gaming. The fact will stand the test of time, while gaming is a falsehood that hardly lasts. Even the Liberal media recognizes the use of endangerment to Democracy if one party wins should not have arisen at all. It was, at best, a fear-mongering campaign. The chips are down. The statement that the ruling party always loses has been proved right because the party failed to do things to win the electorates without a need to resort to gaming. If the economy had functioned to the people's satisfaction, the ruling party might retain its power in the House anyway. Even with a slim Republican majority, the country's direction is better than having a one-party state. The Democratic Party is an American party, the same way that the Republican Party is. And none should seek to banish another for any reason.
Republicans complaining about the lack of a red wave should have lost it. How many Republican Party bigwigs went out to campaign for Republican candidates the way the Democratic Party big-wigs did? One lesson Republicans must learn from the last election is the need to be tough like their Democratic Party counterparts. Electioneering should be competitive. It is useless relying on polls to create a red wave and expect it to come to pass without working harder for it.
Americans have continued saying the country is going wrong despite the election outcome.
However, some representatives of the Republican Party, like Steve Scalise, have said through media that the party is sure to get to the winning number. Kevin McCarthy has said he is applying for the speaker post. The Democratic Party seems to have resigned to fate, believing, in the words of some of their leaders, that the ruling party always loses in the midterm election.
The ruling party has said it is sure to lose the House and retain the senate control. This emerged with the media reports based on polls that the Republican party has mementos and that the party may take the ruling to the cleaners. The information geared up the ruling party with an active last-minute campaign listing among its concerns the endangerment of Democracy if the Republican Party should win massively.
Rep. Jim Clyburn told the media that the history of political events that ended Democracy in Germany was about to be repeated in the United States. It was the primary reason he said voters should not vote for the Republican Party. He was not alone. President Barack Obama gave more power to Clyburn's historical lesson. He said that the danger to Democracy would be that reporters would begin to go to jail for reporting the truth.
President Obama reminded us of the Third World countries where Democracy is regarded by learned fellows as 'Democracy,' a corrupted version of 'Democracy' where leaders do and say what pleases them against the rules. But many people who have lived in Third World countries and have American experience are saying America's Democracy is already a form of 'Democracy' and that the type of one-party state favored by Democratic Party leaders is a hallmark of the Democracy in the Third World.
An observer asked this reporter if the Democratic Party leaders succeeded in convincing the electorate not to never vote for the opposition and only their party would protect Democracy, would the result not be a one-party-state arrangement? Politicians everywhere use all sorts of gaming to catch votes, careless of the repercussion.
There is a difference between saying the truth and gaming. The fact will stand the test of time, while gaming is a falsehood that hardly lasts. Even the Liberal media recognizes the use of endangerment to Democracy if one party wins should not have arisen at all. It was, at best, a fear-mongering campaign. The chips are down. The statement that the ruling party always loses has been proved right because the party failed to do things to win the electorates without a need to resort to gaming. If the economy had functioned to the people's satisfaction, the ruling party might retain its power in the House anyway. Even with a slim Republican majority, the country's direction is better than having a one-party state. The Democratic Party is an American party, the same way that the Republican Party is. And none should seek to banish another for any reason.
Republicans complaining about the lack of a red wave should have lost it. How many Republican Party bigwigs went out to campaign for Republican candidates the way the Democratic Party big-wigs did? One lesson Republicans must learn from the last election is the need to be tough like their Democratic Party counterparts. Electioneering should be competitive. It is useless relying on polls to create a red wave and expect it to come to pass without working harder for it.
Americans have continued saying the country is going wrong despite the election outcome.
