Sinema winning the US Senate race in Arizona is great news
for my thinking.
What did she do? She stayed away from the progressives and
kept her message straight forward. She didn’t embellish, she focused on a few
important issues to the average American and stuck to it. And I am not making
great revelations here, most political pundits are saying the same.
She won. And she won in Arizona. If Beto had done the same
thing he probably would have won. (more proof the Democrats are clueless)
So how does that prove I am right? As you know I state
regularly that most of America is moderate to moderately conservative. And family
issues such as healthcare are very important. And what did she espouse as a
major theme for her campaign? Healthcare.
The Republicans have always traded in the issues that have
won over the middle class, but they never cashed in. They always support the
donor class once the legislation is written. The Democrats are all talk on the
other side of the coin.
Ms. Sinema still needs to produce, but the message should be
clear to any aspiring politician that hard work, straight forward talk on basic
issues will always sell to Main street. The Republicans never produced so my
next win is this shows there is promise in creating a true third major party
that makes what she did a regular part of their development.
No one is truly developing basic public policy that supports
the middle class. Healthcare, Social Security, infrastructure, jobs and better
wages, education are all main street issues, but neither party has ever produced
public policy that furthers this agenda. Throw in balancing the budget and
bringing down the size of the government, reduce government intrusion and it seems
Republican, yet where is the pudding? (I am a conservative)
The country is waking up that there is no pudding. Now can
we make the next step and find more people like Sinema to take this to the next
level? I think we can.
If you read any of my previous posts about public policy,
you see many of these themes. I am not saying I am specifically right, yet I do
feel I am on track. I do have a couple of adventurous projects written into
them, but overall most people are ready for someone to do what the Republicans
and Democrats have not done in fifty years. Sinema even though claiming to be a
Democrat took a different track than either party did this mid-term.
In my foolish optimism, am I feeling a whiff of a breeze;
one that you think you feel on a very still day. Maybe a hot and muggy day, one that just seems
to weigh on you and never stops, but there is that moment from a completely
different direction, maybe you felt something, maybe you saw a leaf move a bit.
Are we there?
Cheers
And on a completely different note, this week is a very sad
week. We will face our mortality, but when it hits home, it hits. A life long
best friend of mine, is succumbing to cancer. This is his second bout and very aggressive
and unfortunately there is nothing that can be done this time. He lives out of
town, yet I have managed to speak to a mutual friend and his wife so far. (I
found out last night) There is inevitability to life, but it is staring me in
the face this week. I am not good with this, at any level. Soon his suffering
will stop and I do not want him to suffer. We have shared so much together, but
I cannot change his situation, though I do not want to see him go. One of the
worst moments is when you realize there is nothing to say. You try and it
fizzles. The better half and I will try to rush down there soon and hope to get
a chance to see him before he goes. For six years in college and right after we
were inseparable, then life separated us, but we kept in touch. We still
managed to get into a bit of trouble every now and then. There are stories not
to be told and stories to share infinitely. We were family, sharing and
participating in each others’ weddings and much more. Both of us stayed married
till that one vow hits home, till death do you part. My brother called me this
evening to check in on me and I appreciate he called. It seemed we needed to
catch up. He knew my friend also. All of us go through these times, it is inevitable,
it will never be better. For him I need a Miller High Life (a few), a Detroit Tigers
game, and a Bob Seger tune. Cheers my friend.
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