Pundits and journos have a field day explaining to us AFTER the fact what has happened with Democrats, while BEFORE the elections they went all gaga for the Democratic candidates from Kamala Harris down.

See for instance “Why Kamala Harris’s Campaign Was Doomed From the Start” or “Nancy Pelosi is finished—no one deserves more blame for Dems’ $1B electoral collapse.”

It is about time to realize it is not only Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi or whoever who messed up the elections for the Democrats, as if different personnel conducting the election campaign for the Democrats could guarantee the victory for the Democratic party, but that the American voters overwhelmingly rejected the decadent left-wing ideology and policies and that led to the debacle of the Democratic party in the last election.

I said that America has returned in the past election to its common sense. American voters have shown they are not that much concerned about left-wing mantras such as the “problem of inequality,” a problem that has been rejected by Nobel laureates in economic sciences as invalid; abortion; gender issues; or the exaggerated “problems of climate change.”

Rather, American voters have shown that their chief concerns are economics, defense and prosperity, all of which were epitomized by the first term of President Trump.

As always, the results of the last election showed the unnecessary division of this country—with a national economy that has left all the wealthy countries of the world in the dust, according to The Economist. This country has the highest productivity and standard of living ever achieved on Earth.

Most of the rhetoric is just plain nonsense that does not recognize the facts of life from the previous paragraph. President Biden called the Trump voters “garbage” and Nancy Pelosi called President Trump “an existential threat to democracy.” Democrats wrote in the media that they are afraid thugs will come after them as a result of the last election, and another stated that those who voted for President Trump—who won the popular vote—were “fascists.” Yet others threaten to move out of the country.

To be sure, Republicans engaged in similar nonsense before the election. I used to receive 30 emails and text messages claiming that “this was the most important election of our lifetime” and “if we lose this election, this country will go to the dogs.” “If I lose this election, we are done,” wrote one Republican incumbent (he lost) and “I may have to move out of this country,” someone wrote.

I do not think the solution to the problem of the unnecessary division of this country is in the affidavit Sidney Powell, Rudi Giuliani’s sidekick, wrote to a court in response to being sued by Dominion Software. She wrote: “I have no evidence of any election wrongdoing by Dominion Software. This court should take a judicial notice that in politics we exaggerate.”

Rather, both sides of the aisle must realize that democracy is by definition messy and difficult. Yet, as Winston Churchill remarked, “it is the worst political system, with the exception of all those that have been tried before.” 

Thus, it is wrong for those whose candidate loses the presidential election to believe that this is the end of the world. Instead, if we do not like the results of the election, it is incumbent upon us to work in a democratic way toward winning the next election.

In addition, we should continue being cognizant of the important fact that this wealthy country has been humming along successfully for decades through successive Democratic and Republican administrations, each imprinting its indelible ideology on the country.

Finally, we must recognize that democracy can work only through a compromise among all parties involved. Thus, both sides of the aisle must cooperate with each other in a sensible way. I have noticed all too often, and it is wrong, that the members of the opposing party are considered subhuman and not even worth talking to, therefore preventing useful cooperation.

Ivan Orisek
Forestburgh, NY