A Bleak Future Told Through The Midterms

The current trends of voting seem to point to a large turnout of midterm elections not seen since 2018. Indications reflect that, it may be the biggest midterm turnout in a long time, or in election history.

Although is that a good thing for our country?

Political analysts are already asking themselves what this large turnout can really mean, why it is there, and what the implications are for the United States. Often, when voting is down, so is the general populations concerns for our countries’ stand- ing. Currently, most Americans polled would argue that our country is on the wrong track. Furthermore, polling around polarization is once more at a new high. Democrats, according to many NBC polls, believe our democracy is in trouble, while Republicans believe that Democratic policies are currently destroying our country. The resulting factor as NBC found this past week in its polling is large public interest in the midterms among both parties.

This interest is not in the sense of civic duty. Rather, public interest is due to fear regarding what the other party may do while in power.

The issue of such interest poses a good question: Is this truly healthy for our country? A pendulum shifts power every cycle, stark differences in ideology, and there is pure fear of what the other party will do. It does not seem like a healthy pattern going forward for the United States.

Instead, the election interest, the high turnout and the current outlook pose a problem for our country. The politically motivated attack of Nancy Pelosi’s husband this week is an ominous foreshadowing of the U.S. political future, which is one of politically motivated attacks. In time of such distrust, fear, and an ideological split, a future like the 1960s seems like the current trajectory.