Tuesday November 11th, 2025
My Dear America:
Something Amazing happened in America this past November 4th. I certainly didn't expect it and I don't think many other Americans expected it either.
Democrats, who haven't had a lot to celebrate since before November of 2024, suddenly stared into their Television sets and watched with wonder, appreciation and hope as the unexpected Landslide of epic proportions came into perspective and the unexpected Blue Wave turned into a Blue Tsunami in every State, County and City in the United States of America. After all the bad news that Democrats had begun to get used to every day during the past year it was a wonderful and historic change that had taken place in the churches and VFW Halls where Americans got used to showing up to vote in their proper voting districts.
In reality, it should have been no surprise to anyone that Democrats had run the table and won races everywhere in the country, mostly by wide margins. Everywhere in the country people were hurting thanks to Donald Trump. The Government continued to be shut down, Snap benefits were gone and prospects for hungry children were going up. Donald Trump had torn down the East Wing of the White House in order to put up a Golden Ballroom. Republicans in Congress had become gutless toadies who fell in line every time Donald Trump cracked his whip. The Supreme Court did not support those decent County, State and Federal Judges who were trying their best to stem the pattern of Injustice and Corruption in the United States of America. Many Americans, as well as Illegal Immigrants, were enduring senseless beatdowns in some of the major cities in America and there was more, much much more for Americans to be angry about.
The truth is that after many years in which many Americans didn't pay a lot of attention to elections, people had found out during the past year just how much elections matter to Americans and on Tuesday November 4th, 2025 we saw that the days of Americans failing to pay attention to their elections had apparently come to a close. Clearly Donald Trump's Reckless behavior over the past year, as well as other years, had caused many Americans to recognize that in the USA the shit had certainly hit the fan and it was not only falling on protestors in Donald Trump Videos it was flying back to hit Donald Trump and his Reckless Republican cronies in the face.
The American Electorate had truly become WOKE.
WOKE to the insensitivity of the Trump Republican Insane Posse.
WOKE to the lack of Empathy toward other human beings who are sharing the Planet with one another.
WOKE to the blatant Corruption going on in the Trump Administration.
WOKE to the strangeness of Cabinet meetings with the fawning praises toward Donald Trump that look so weirdly like something that belongs more in North Korea.
WOKE to the killing of Faceless Supposed Drug Smuggling Strangers on boats in the Caribbean Ocean.
What the hell, man. Why the hell wouldn't Americans be voting for Democrats over this Reckless Corrupt Republican Agenda.
And They Did.
The Election Results were something that hadn't been seen for some time. They were staggering. Democrats seemed to be winning in every place in the country from the top to the bottom of the ticket.
Democrats were back big time and an important and loud message was being sent by the American Electorate to Donald Trump and the Republicans who followed and supported his every move.
The message was clear to any Republican Politician who dared to pay attention to what the American voters were saying in November of 2025.
Like Peter Finch in the movie "Network" Americans were clearly saying to American Politicians:
We're Mad As Hell And We're Not gonna take it anymore
It Was about time that this message was sent loud and clear by American Voters.
But unfortunately the Voters Message seems to be getting completely ignored by the Republicans in Congress. They are continuing their disastrous policies such as keeping the Government shut down and racing toward giving more tax breaks to millionaires, Jamming outrageous price hikes to Obamacare while eliminating Snap benefits that keep food on the table for many Americans and giving 40 Billion Dollars to Argentina while more American Family Farms go bankrupt every day and the suicide rates among farmers in America continues to skyrocket.
But I guess that it is going to take time for Republicans to face up to the fact that Donald Trump is leading us all over the cliff together and that we had all better wake up before it is too late to save America from it's disastrous Republican Party agenda.
It seems to me that we Democrats have also been sent an important message by the American voters. We need to pay attention to the fact that in the 2026 Mid Term Elections Democrats seem to have an excellent chance to return to power and save Democracy from Donald Trump and his Toad Squad.
Clearly we need to savor the victories we have experienced in this last election. But we also need to keep alert to the Trump Republican distractions that are bound to be on their way.
And we also need to be careful not to fall into one of the traps that not only Republicans but also some of our own Zealous Democrats sometimes place us in. One of those traps that Democrats set for each other is the prospect of Democrats demanding too much from each other and in particular from their Leadership. The Democratic Party has always been a big tent party and should remain so. Progressives and Conservatives in the party have at times demanded too much allegiance from one end of the party to another. In other words Democratic Progressives may demand only Progressive Policies and Democratic Conservatives may demand the opposite from their party namely Democratic Conservative policies.
Presently there is a move afoot by some in the Democratic party to denigrate and remove from leadership both Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Some Democrats who are frustrated by their present lack of political power are quick to blame Democratic leadership for our problems and certainly Republicans and Donald Trump, in particular are going to be stirring up this backbiting on the part of Democrats.
We need to avoid falling into this trap. Lawrence O'Donnell on one of his recent shows pointed out all of the accomplishments of Senate Leader, Chuck Schumer and they were many and they were important. Certainly, Republicans are going to encourage dissatisfaction with Leadership in the Democratic party. The more divided the Democratic party is the easier life is for them.
Let's not make life easier for Republicans. Let's not fall into the trap of demanding so much of a Democratic Leader or Candidate that no human being can fit the bill.
One lesson that I think we should all take away from watching Republicans and Donald Trump in action is that No Matter What - The Republicans stick with their Guy - Regardless.
Instead of Democrats quickly finding fault with Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani who just became the Mayor Elect of New York City in a very high profile and difficult race maybe it might make sense for Democrats to give him a chance and support his efforts to care more about poor people than rich People.
Mamdani won by a lot - Maybe he was onto something.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
No comments:
Post a Comment