There is almost nothing on the news right now except the polling results coming in from this year’s midterm election. And while Democrats continue to pick up wins following winning the Senate and House, do these midterm election results and wins showcase a possible push for a unified nation in America?
Short answer? No, absolutely not. While massive wins for left-wing and more liberal citizens and citizens who have grown tired of the current administration and representatives, this does not just suddenly make the US one combined force on what we want and what we believe in.
More realistically, what the results show is slight muddling of the political divides created by political polarization and massive frustration with living conditions and broken promises.
What the midterm really tells us is that many voters this year voted out of a lot of frustration over the current administration. Voters this year used their ballots to voice their frustrations over the nation’s inflation, the rising cost of living, the gas prices, and hated foreign policies. And while these frustrations are voiced on both sides of the political spectrum, this isn’t the first time a swing of change in the seats of power in both the House and Senate has happened. The House alone in the last three midterms has had drastic changes and has swapped which side was in power each midterm, another sign that this isn’t one unified nation still, as this happens every midterm election.
However, just because the strong divide still exists amongst us as a country, these mid terms and common perceptions are slowly becoming unified and could possibly showcase a step towards being unified much stronger. The possibility of this would lessen political polarization and create hopefully healthier political conversation and discourse with a baseline of more shared values rather than a focus on colors and political conflict that rewards no one but politicians who most likely have no care about the citizens much anyway.
