Normally, at this time of the year, I write a post with my predictions for the coming year. Here’s last year’s, which holds up reasonably well, considering I had no reason to predict a pandemic when I wrote it. I did have reason, given her age, to suspect that Ruth Bader Ginsburg might not make it another year, but not much I can do about that.
This year, the fact is that we have to wait until January 5th to make an educated guess about what the future holds in store. If the Democrats manage to win both Senate seats in Georgia, we will have one future, one in which we might possibly save the Republican for our children and grandchildren. Should they lose, well, that’s a different story, with a far different future. In that event, the chances of the Republic surviving are somewhat slim. I’ll expand on one of these alternatives once we know whether Mitch McConnell will retain the ability to continue to destroy the country.
One thing we can say with certainty, as Paul Krugman has been repeatedly predicting. Deficits will suddenly starts to matter again, both to the Republicans who have ignored them for the past four years, and the media which has also followed the time honored practice of ignoring deficits when Republicans control the government. The one thing we can hope, if the Dems manage to win the Senate, is that they will have finally learned to tell the Republicans to shove it up their asses about the deficit.
So, more to come after the fifth, unless I forget, which is entirely possibly, as I am getting to be a very old man.
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