Dana Blankenhorn

Harbingers of Change

There are lots of harbingers that change is in the air.

You just don’t read about them.

If you look at polls, or headlines from various states, you’ll think Democrats are on the run and Republicans have absolute impunity. Polls are mostly statistical noise it takes an expert to understand. It’s what a party does with its impunity, and how folks in a democracy react, that decides the future.

I don’t care that Trump was indicted, or that Jean Carroll won her suit, or the George Santos was indicted. I don’t care about the latest stupidity from Meatball Ron or the chair-bound governor of the Great State of Texas.

Things Are About to Happen

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. 

A political campaign can start only after policies are implemented.

In 2023, a lot of things are about to happen that will have profound impacts on how people vote next year.

• Ukraine is coming for Russia. We’ll know a lot more about that by fall.
• Jack Smith is coming for Trump. We’ll know a lot more about that by fall.
• Gun, abortion, and education policies are being implemented by states and we’ll know a whole lot more about their effect by fall.

I haven’t even mentioned the weather, which will show in no uncertain terms just how damaging our reliance on fossil fuels has become. Droughts and hurricanes will wreak terrible havoc on the whole planet this summer, and on Americans too.