Looking at the election results from Tuesday, lots of people keep asking "what does it mean?"
Here's what it means: Republicans won a couple, Democrats won a couple, and you too can be Mayor of New York City for the low low price of just $100 Million.
People wanted change so they voted for Obama last year. Guess what - they still want change so they're voting against incumbency. But guess what else - sometimes change is a scary thing when you're in the middle of it, so there's a tendency to revert to the old familiar ways of doing things.
Having sobered up a little after the Bush Blowout, some of us are beginning to remember that actually you can't get something for nothing. If you want good schools and roads and safe food and secure borders and professional cops and clean water and healthcare and and and - then you have to figure out how to pay for it all. If you don't want to pay for anything, then you don't get anything. It's not a difficult concept, so it might just turn out that you have to spend some of your hard-earned money on something other than the shit you think you need in order to compensate for your latest feelings of inadequacy (courtesy of your favorite Giant Advertising Company).
It's been a nice party, but now it's time to clean up, and pay up.
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