"We" lost the mid-terms and I don't care

I stated a long time ago that I didn't give half a crap about the midterm elections and barely paid any attention to them. North Carolina was and likely still is considered a swing-state and this is something that kind of makes me proud because I like to think that our population, more so than other states, looks at situations and candidates beyond just the letter next to their name. I suppose they do, I don't know.

Where I live is strongly conservative and in the larger cities people are strongly liberal. This is not special, I guess we just have more smaller cities than California or something.

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The day after the elections I managed to go all day without even knowing that the Democrats did very well in the midterms and they were gloating and cheering and just over the moon. My life is one of social media and news avoidance and my job is in construction where we have a bunch of rather grizzled me on job sites that couldn't give half a bucket of piss about politics and just want to be left alone, do their job, collect their money, and go about their lives. In a way our collective professions are kind of insulated because there is very little technology involved (other than the obvious mechanical stuff), the only person on most of our sites that could even be considered "white collar" would be me and I am far from that.

But nothing was mentioned around the yard about the elections and my day was better because of that. It wasn't until I got to the Elks Lodge later that night that some of my idiot friends who think they are ahead of the curve on politics were lamenting the loss of "our side."

While I am conservative, I do not consider the GOP to be my side at all. I don't necessarily consider the Dems an enemy either. Well let me rephrase that: I consider almost all of them to be the enemy, no matter what letter is next to their names.

I have fallen out with politics and am basically just apathetic now. I don't really have any plans to vote in anything other than our local elections and while I don't mean to be constantly dredging this up, people really need to pay much closer attention to their local elections than they do. I think nationwide we have a turnout for local elections that is around 20% and that is just pathetic. The things that are most likely to affect your life directly and very few people even bother to turn up for them.

I saw a few images of how elated the liberals were at their rallies and how sad the conservatives were at theirs and the only thing that was going on in my mind was that I am really happy that I do not know any of these people. I find them delusional and the kind of sheep that are going to follow anything they are told to follow as long as it aligns with their overlords' wishes. Of course all of them would vehemently deny that they are brainwashed lemmings....all the way off the cliff.

My life is going to continue as it always has. As far as I understand it this "victory" on the part of the blues just means that nothing is going to happen in Congress for the next 2 years. I don't really see how that is any different than what has happened in Congress the past 2 years, or the past 20 years before that.

I am conservative in my values, not in my affiliation to candidates. I looked at some of the candidates that were hand selected and honestly, a lot of it reminded me of the time they installed a candidate for Senate in Georgia just because he was black. The would never admit to this but he was an ex NFL player with some level of fame. There was just one problem, the guy sounded like a complete moron in interviews and seemed almost like he couldn't think. It was evident why they put him up for this role and in the end I was very happy that he lost.

Politics are ugly in USA and the thing that gets me the most about it is that it doesn't really seem to matter who is in office, things don't really change. USA continues to enforce their will militarily overseas, prices of things go up, people who didn't prepare accordingly complain and look for handouts and in the meantime there are people like me and most of the people I know that are just getting on with it do just fine.

I'm gonna head to work now and continue not talking about politics and just enjoying my life. You can keep your tribalism if you have it. I simply do not care anymore.