Midterm Malaise

Midterm malaise. America remains schizoid in character, cleaved down the middle by a bizarrely cruel political blood sport, and with no clear winners, certainly not the voters. 

Both parties continue to crassly discourage any chances for solutions or collaboration. Both parties promise, and lie, and deny any responsibility for the current mess.

Trump continues as America's #1 ugly enigma, as capable as he is dispicable. You can't find his 2.0 because there is none. He remains colossally one-dimensional. It's still the Brand Trump thing, 24/7, no exceptions. Nothing, not a single thought gets around that filter. Trump's personality should lose him the election every time, and will again. But, his many achievements in one term were impressively realized, and while getting jobbed by his political and media enemies on largely phony claims of his alleged wrongdoing.

Trump was a hero for Israel, while the world's tyrants could neither predict nor dismiss him. Energy independence for America changed the country's future prospects, but it was all reversed immediately by Biden, who now begs the surly Saudis for more oil. These strange midterms did not identify big trends, but the voters' message also seemed to be: Trump, get lost!  He won't. Yet,  he also cannot avoid representing the long gone past. That doesn't sell.

The sad vacuum of honest, coherent leadership, and the utter absence of intelligent vision from either party only underscores why the independent category has so greatly grown. America counts the votes, stumbles along still unhappy, inflation and crime on a rampage, and no one accountable. Maybe this midterm election was a referendum for ambivalence, with a majority still saying: "wrong direction."