What will the Future hold for America?

The long awaited November 2nd mid-term election has concluded last night. As expected from all the polling, the Republicans have taken control of the House and the Democrats have a very slim margin to retain control of the Senate. What does this now equate to governance from now on?

Today has been a day in which the Conservative Republican leaders and Tea Party Caucus leaders have been pounding their chests proclaiming that there is no flexibility, no compromise, and no working with the Democrats and the President on any legislation. Their first priority is to make President Obama a one term president by stopping governance, stop funding of any of his legislation of the past two years and reversing as much as they can. Jobs are to appear magically because with the Republicans in control by lowering the rich and corporate taxes, and thus they will use the extra money to hire employees. The problem is they will hire them in China, not in America. So high unemployment will remain for the next two years and come 2012 they will blame it on the Democrats again for blocking all their legislation of tax cuts and spending cuts. That is a whole other rambling about the next presidential election.

The line in the sand has been drawn, but for some reason, the Democrats still think they can work with the Republicans and pass legislation that the Republicans might have previously proposed. Why are they so stubborn in thinking there is any cooperation from across the isle, why do they think the Republicans will feel the need to now share in the governance of the country?

After all they won a huge election by just saying NO to everything. They also exceeded in blaming everything they even voted for as bad and a Democrat bill, like the TARP bail out signed into law by President Bush, NOT Obama. Which also did what it was suppose to do, stop a depression. American's have mass amnesia about the destruction of the Bush administration that caused this massive unemployment and economic collapse.

Another very troubling issue is the low turnout of the electorate. With such an important election (every election is important), only 20% of all voters cast a ballot. That is very sad for the continuation of our democracy. When combative middle-east nations have 70% of the people vote, even at the risk of their own lives and the many acts of violence at the polls, it is embarrassing that America, the supposed beacon of democracy, only having 20% of it citizens vote - with no guns or insurgency battling at the polling places.

I just hope that stagnation in governance is the best option right now and that America can survive the next two years to the next major election. And just hopefully progressives can get some back bone and fight to regain control of the government to return sanity and governance. But it does not look favorable for the next two years.