By Daniel Nardini
I truly feel sorry for the wife and children of Charlie Kirk. They are without a beloved husband and father. I pray for them. Charlie Kirk was a warrior for the partisanship that is tearing America apart. And what about the murders of former Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hotman by Vance Boetler? Boetler was a right wing fanatic who hated Democrats as much as Tyler Robinson hated Charlie Kirk. The extreme danger for America is that we are becoming two different countries with two different agendas and two very different views of what America should look like. Neither side wants to even hear the other side, and so both sides are resorting to violence, intimidation and even murder to achieve their ends. Both Democrats and Republicans, no matter where they may be, now see each other as the enemy and un-American.
Instead of finding dialog and finding commonality to build political bridges, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have attempted to stack the deck for the next congressional elections by re-arranging the voting districts in Red (Republican-controlled) states to shut out Democrat voters. The Democrats are following suit by re-arranging largely Republican areas in their states to make their state solidly Blue (Democrat). This does more to kill voter representation and only make the battle lines so much worse not just between the two ruling political parties but whole counties, regions and communities. All this does is perpetuate a vicious cycle where either the Democrats or the Republicans will win and push more extreme agendas and cause more partisanship and violence than before. In my view, no matter what either side try to do, the congressional elections will take place in November of 2026, and the odds are the Democrats will win that election cycle.
But to what end? Even if the Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, what will be achieved? Will rule of law be any better advanced? Will the anger and partisanship end? Will the White House even remotely work with the U.S. Congress if it is Democrat? We saw this back in 2018—we are on a collision course with history. In this hyper-partisan climate, the whole political process has become a zero sum game; winner take all. Except that the winners cannot take it all, and the losers will simply bide their time to seek revenge. We have simply entered a vicious political cycle which will take down all of America.
More Red, More Blue America
By Daniel Nardini
Instead of finding dialog and finding commonality to build political bridges, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have attempted to stack the deck for the next congressional elections by re-arranging the voting districts in Red (Republican-controlled) states to shut out Democrat voters. The Democrats are following suit by re-arranging largely Republican areas in their states to make their state solidly Blue (Democrat). This does more to kill voter representation and only make the battle lines so much worse not just between the two ruling political parties but whole counties, regions and communities. All this does is perpetuate a vicious cycle where either the Democrats or the Republicans will win and push more extreme agendas and cause more partisanship and violence than before. In my view, no matter what either side try to do, the congressional elections will take place in November of 2026, and the odds are the Democrats will win that election cycle.
But to what end? Even if the Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, what will be achieved? Will rule of law be any better advanced? Will the anger and partisanship end? Will the White House even remotely work with the U.S. Congress if it is Democrat? We saw this back in 2018—we are on a collision course with history. In this hyper-partisan climate, the whole political process has become a zero sum game; winner take all. Except that the winners cannot take it all, and the losers will simply bide their time to seek revenge. We have simply entered a vicious political cycle which will take down all of America.