Today is the end of a tumultuous year that was/is a mixed bag of positives and negatives. Politically we democrats lost the House but held the Senate. They, the pundits, keep saying that America wants divided government but that is a lie. What the republicans did in many states was to gerrymander districts so that they could steal House seats and was why the republicans narrowly won the house. Without gerrymandering the House would still be under democratic control. But the key takeaway here from the last election is that overall republicans are a mess and are starting to being seen as a mess.
Economically The devastating effects of the Covid infections are slowly unwinding and our supply lines are getting back to somewhat normal operations. We are also able to get out into the public square more frequently albeit still with some preventative Covid precautions. Our workforce is working its way back and spending is calming down on essential items. Unemployment is way down and the cost of living increases, because of reactionary inflation overreaches, are tailing off and prices are starting to drop, namely fuel costs for example. There is much work left to be done in our economy but it is at least going in the correct direction.
As to our society, the damage done by an over zealous right wing supreme court is still lingering and may still have some deplorable outcomes in the new future. I am worried somewhat that the newly elected majority of republicans in the House will be unable to coalesce around protecting rights that the out of touch right wing majority on the supreme court is eager to deny. Yet that is still questionable. The putin led invasion of Ukraine is going badly for Russia and that is good because nowhere in the world should any tyrant be having success against freedom loving peoples. All in all this coming year is going to be less a disaster thanks to strong democratic voting turnout and good people who occupy those democratic seats.
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