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Somehow the Senate and governor's races did not mirror what happened in the House:

@kylenabecker
Nov 9
"This may be the strangest election I've ever seen."

Steven Moore nailed it on Fox News. Despite 75% of voters saying country is on 'wrong track' and majority 'angry' about inflation/economy, not a single incumbent governor or senator gets flipped?

How does that happen?

I have a theory about why the red wave wasnt allowed to manifest.

My whole life I've heard "the people wont vote to replace the govt in the middle of a war", and some obvious reasons for why that may be spring to mind. But maybe its never been the people doing that - maybe the elites just dont allow regime change during wartime.

I do think we are in a mild wartime now. It's just a modern version where they make it more palatable by using proxies to fight. But they know their drapes and smokescreen are precarious, and so this war could escalate a ton in a blink.

So maybe allowing the house to be lost, but they retain the governers and senate, was their idea of making it "believable" without costing them too much.

Patrick says

How does that happen?

How indeed . . . OMG I almost said the F word (Fraud).

GOP pickup here due to less bad gerrymandering.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/11/2022-midterms-not-a-tsunami-but-some-real-republican-gains/

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1590332110342017025

Some post-election thoughts:

1- Everything I have been saying about democracy was vindicated last night. The fact that such a massive number of people voted for more of the same after two years of horrific mismanagement shows that it is unfit to choose its own leaders.
2- Public education and its consequences have been a disaster for the American people. Any Christians that still think sending their children to public schools is a morally neutral choice are choosing national suicide.
2a- The damage is probably already irreversible at this point. The D's staved off what should have been a bloodbath through the youth vote. The boomers and Xers can no longer counterbalance the pozzed generations electorally.
3- With such an advanced level of moral degeneracy, the best thing for the world is that American global influence wane rapidly, and it probably will. Our unique flavor of degeneracy seems to be bound up with a commitment to incompetence, and our global hegemon cannot last long.
4- Many of us had been hoping that there was some kind of positive/neutral world revival in the works; that maybe a return to better days was happening. Nope, it is negative world good and hard for the foreseeable future on a national level.
4a- Consequently, those Christians that still refuse to believe in negative world should be completely ignored, nay ridiculed, at this point.
5- As noted by others, all the good things Republicans did last night should have been done two decades ago when they might have made a real difference. For now, there are some bright red locales that will do well, but that's about it.
6- I have no real thoughts on Ron vs Don. Not sure either could beat the machine on a federal level at this point.
7- Vast numbers of older Americans wanted the trappings of Norman Rockwell America, but with sexual liberation. Now that their own libidos have cooled, they are voting for the former, but their own actions created new generations that will vote against it
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7a- They incoherently wanted this but with divorce, cohabitation, and free love. Their grandkids think this is fascism and want elective mastectomies.
7b- Our ancestors placed massive hedges around sex because they knew it was incredibly potent. When channeled rightly it will build great civilizations, when left uncontained it will raze them. For generations, people rode promises to tear down the hedges into office. Now we pay.
8- The Benedict Option was not complete, but what it DID advocate was usually sound. Start building your parallel community and economy via sound churches and likeminded local associations. Get ready for the storm. You are ngmi without friends.
8a- This might require you to move to a new state. Or you might be in a state like PA that is blue, but has tons of good places and churches, where you can hunker. Do what you must to keep your kids safe.
8b- It seems unlikely we will be able to stop what is happening, but the regime will eventually collapse under its own bloat and idiocy. Fight it where you can, dig in to endure it, be ready to replace it when the time comes.
9- Some replies reminded me of another wild card in all the coming chaos that I forgot to mention: demographic collapse.
Global fertility is barely above replacement, with the West and the East Asian nations well below it.
The regime may collapse faster than some of you think.
9a- We won't have decades or centuries of GAE tyranny (or Chinese tyranny) if they can't find the manpower to run their gulags, indoctrination centers, surveillance agencies, etc. because they can barely keep the supply chain, etc. running.

zzyzzx says

GOP pickup here due to less bad gerrymandering.

Probably the biggest culprit. Gerrymandering. I've said it before, districts should be as square as possible taking in to account population. My district has a town 60 miles away with an average home price of $900k. My area is $180-200k... We literally have no chain restaurants, hotels, yuppie boutique store, etc. We're on a different planet (which I like). How can someone represent both? They can't.