Republicans now control the governorship and legislature in 26 states and conservative leaders say this trend continues to grow in Republicans’ favor.
“Over the last seven years since we have covered state legislatures and state executives pretty extensively, there’s been a significant shift from Democratic-controlled state governments to Republican,” Geoff Pallay, editor in chief at Ballotpedia, a website focused on elections, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
“Whatever happened in 2010 has remained,” Pallay said.
The trend of widespread Republican leadership continued.
With West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s announcement Aug. 3 of his switch from Democrat to Republican, the GOP has 26 “trifectas” while Democrats hold six, Ballotpedia notes.
A trifecta is a situation where “one political party holds the governorship, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House in a state’s government,” it says.
This probably indicates a continuing economic decline, since economic misery (unemployment + inflation) correlates with political conservatism. The question now is, can President Trump actually turn things around enough to reverse this trend?
The shift in ideology usually follows the economic shift by about one year when you lay the graphs over each other, so in a year we will begin to see if Trump’s economic recovery can overcome the ever increasing sense of doom being produced by the combination of increasing debt, decreasing political stability, and the threat of hostile migrant takeovers.
If the 2018, and especially 2020 elections go as the conventional wisdom indicate they should and conservatives dominate, then we will know that Trumps’ economic effects are not slowing the economic decline. If that happens, the collapse is probably on its way and nothing can or will slow it down.
If however, people grow a little wary of the right, and opt for more conflict-avoidant, threat and out-group-appeasing candidates in those elections, then we know that Trump’s economic effects are slowing the Apocalypse’s approach, by adding resource-production to the free resource boom of ever-increasing debt spending.
At this point we should be too far gone to stop the Apocalypse entirely. There is too much debt everywhere, pensions and entitlements are too insolvent, and we’ve added too many foreign savages to our already copious entitlement rolls. The only thing that is keeping everything afloat is the total mental cluelessness of everyone who is floating their money freely in a system that is heading for an unavoidable collapse.
As can easily be seen, we need the apocalypse sooner rather than later. So whether the approach of the Apocalypse is slowed or not could make a big difference in just how bad the chaos at the collapse is, and how long the recovery will be after it. Personally, I am hoping the economic situation is just good enough to allow continued conservative control, but not so good as to register on the graph of the Conservative Policy Mood.
Spread r/K Theory, because you can predict what is to come, and extrapolate what is, based on it
Nice.
But yeah, when the Pension Fund/Sovereign Debt crisis hits, its going to be a biblical shit fest of death by starvation violence and disease. Yay! Well, at least the leftards are going to be surrounded by the less desirable people possible (“refugees” with no problems going retarded violent when the gibs evaporate and that are full of diseases, aids acceptance crowd that’ll have no medicine, mentally ill cross dressers and self-dick choppers who walk around with a prone to infection open wound where their dicks used to be, kids delusional enough to need safe spaces, black supremacists who think they’ll be better off without withes around (look who that worked in Zimbabwe and other African shit-hole countries), junkies who just want their next fix and would sell their grandmas for it, smug peak soy idiots who think they’ll kill all “nazis” and just go back to watch game of thrones when massive civil unrest hits).
Boy oh boy, its going to be fun.
It should be noted that at this point Trump has not yet achieved any of his major agenda items. The wall is not yet built, Obama care is not yet repealed and Tax reductions are still to be enacted. The left, the Democrats and a considerable contingent of so-called Republicans have been standing in his way, which means they are standing in the way of the Americans who voted for change. I’m inclined to think that we will not see any of these items put into practice until after the next election cycle when the power of the establishment is further reduced by the voters. Until then we will be forced to muddle along at our current mediocre rate of economic growth. Should we be successful in getting these policies in place, I would expect a surge in the American economy as capital that has been sitting on the sidelines rushes in to find new opportunities for investment.
Could be. I would bet on the wall, but it may take another cycle. The establishment is just too big a monster.