Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
"Sometimes things are happening that are bigger than what the headline flow suggests."
- Tom Luongo, Gold, Goats and Guns
The Party of Victims (a.k.a., the Democratic Party), the so far designated "winners" of the midterm election, spent the past week talking smack to the country about how they aim to go after the president and everyone in his cabinet. . . impeachment-o-rama. . .persecutions. . . a veritable Grand Guignol of Jacobin-style political bloodletting in the next Congress - until Mr. Blanche, the attorney general, had to remind them that such an agenda seemed to lack legislative purpose, implying that this is how punks talk.
Chatter overheard out of the White House bespeaks a hearty debate about how to handle these garish threats. Does the president try to play nice with such a pack of rabid animals? Or is it time for Mr. Trump to channel his inner Harry Callahan? You must think the answer is self-evident, but it kind of turns on what reputable detectives can discern about the propriety of the election that put them in Congress, or lack of such.
You could not contrive a more excessively convoluted balloting process than our fifty states of the union have come up with. The many complex layers between registration, casting, and counting of ballots, plus the intervention of computerized tabulation machines, scream of vast openings to manipulation and fraud. There are many sound theories about what happened this time
