Voting Divisively

 THE FORTHCOMING GEORGIA SENATORIAL RUNOFF ELECTION is a perfect, appropriate illustration of the america's fundamental divide, of the Democrats, the Republicans, and their differences. An intellectual documentary flim maker and an African-American minister versus a pair of billionaires, one a former CEO, the other a hot babe with an inheritance. Amazingly, a large number of non wealthy people, mostly conservative white Christians, will vote for the billionaires, billionaires whose agendas will represent the interests of billionaires, not poor people. Although it is true that blues are outraising reds these days, buttressed by Wall Street hedging its bets and your occasional liberal multibillionaire like George Soros and Mike Bloomberg, it is still equally true, and long has been, that if  you closely examine the respective party's constituencies and agendas and platforms, although the Republicans currently do not have a party platform,you will find two distinct demonstrable realities. The Democrats are full of ethnic minorities, poor people, and educated whites, and the Republicans are full of rich people and uneducated white Christians. The interests of a large majority of Americans are better represented by the Democratic agenda, and the Democratic agenda including its mot progressive features, is supported by a majority of American voters.Trump's plan to visit Georgia to help the republican candidates could backfire, and could help motivate Democratic voters more than Republicans. For teh sake of getting substantial emergency economic assistance to the American people, installing a comprehensive, effective centralized plan for fighting the pandemic, for the sake of at long last establishing a powerful government program to fight climate change, to fight systemic racism, and to promote police reform, Atlanta's huge African-American community might be motivated to elect two Democratic Senators, like it helped win the Georgia presidential election for Biden. The future of America's health, economically, as well as in terms of a sustainable climate and public health, might well depend on it. An artist and a minister running for election against a pair ob billionaires.A slam dunk no brainer decision for working people, you might think.However, the billionaires will probably get elected, with substantial help from the  minimum wage demographic. As Davy Crockett said: "that don;t make no sense. hell, that don't even make good nonsense." Why on earth any minimum wage worker would believe for a second that any billionaire would have poor people's best interests at heart is among nature's greatest mysteries. As P.T. Barnum said: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people".