Yesterday, I heard a guy talking on the radio. He’s a conservative. He said Republicans believe the far left has taken over the Democrat party and they’re driving the country to ruin and it scares the bejesus out of the right so THAT’S why the right are acting like assholes. The exact opposite of the truth. Of course, every conservative accusation is an admission, though.

I’m not sure we have a single social or economic problem that can’t trace it’s roots back to conservative policy and/or conservative thinking. The right launched it’s “culture war” against everyone else decades ago but it started really heating up a few years back. Then, with the evil Dobbs decision in 2022, the right has gone into overdrive, trying to force their 18th century viewpoint on 21st century people. It isn’t going well for them. The problem seems to be, it isn’t the 18th century, anymore.

But the culture war, and in particular Dobbs, seems to have motivated the 21st century people to action. Yesterday saw a mid-term vote in several states for various offices and issues. The right was trying, through one means or another, to take enough control in enough states to be able to codify much of their 18th century agenda into law.

I’d say the left won this round. Virginia handed control of their state legislature to the Democrats, stopping Republican governor Glenn Youngkin from enacting his evil 18th century agenda. The Democratic governor of Republican-leaning Kentucky won reelection based on his support for abortion rights. Ohio finally settled the reproductive rights issue once and for all by codifying the rights into their state constitution. Mississippi is the only “miss.” They opted to stay 18th century by returning their Republican governor to the governor’s office. You might want to stay out of Mississippi for the foreseeable future.

So congratulations to the Democrats and the 21st century, in general. Conservative faith based stupidity is very difficult to overcome but little signs like this give me hope that, slowly but surely, we’re getting it done. Now we have to carry that forward to the national elections and get those Republican crazies out of Congress once and for all and we can get this country back on track…