In many ways the blue wave is really a purple wave for many Republicans and Independents must have found their sitting President to be their biggest liability. The aspirations of the man who would be king were soaked down by the midterm rebuke, but that soaking does not assure of conversion of red to blue. This blue wave has only helped dislodge some of a sitting president’s power which was the goal of a number of people who slipped briefly from the red party or no party at all. What happens to help and assure these people who are caught in their value structures in a new camp for the next 24 months is what matters now. The inflation, Social Security, rocketing medical insurance premiums, grocery costs, are not going away without some pain and certainly not fast. Will the pain of correction simply drive them back to the next red narrative? If the blue wave offers once again the politics of retribution, competition, and 400 page legislation sounding like circular arguments yielding nothing but more rhetoric, this will be a short party because all of sudden you will be just another opponent to the people who helped roll this wave.

Modest suggestion for Good

Keep it focused. People are looking for signs of their own voices in government again. The issues are myriad with the current administration, but in the end the almost tearful relief that has been felt across the nation is the coming from the prospect of recognizable humanity in government once again. The foul bullying language, inhumanity to immigrants and refugees, use of the DOJ as a personal weapon of destruction, personal use of the the Department of Defense as a push button video game to win little treasures, the simple and transparent corruption that makes public servants Midas wealthy, have built this mixed coalition. But the spirit the new purple consensus needs to see in the media is the power of democracy and its dedication to the values parents want to teach their kids. America needs to hear that kindness, empathy, justice, equal opportunity, intelligence are our better angels and not the diseased expressions of a lack of testosterone. More Importantly, these values need to be shown clearly in proposed Congressional legislation that is focused and comprehensible. Hard? Yes! Impossible? No! Let justice work as justice relentlessly in the background and the peoples government work as the people’s government transparently in the foreground of the public’s awareness. That would be good.