Those of you asking why the U.S. did what it did yesterday (handing back control to Republican) party. Here is why.

I will tell you why. It's because people who vote here very often have NO idea of the platform and/voting record of the people they vote for. Your general middle aged and elderly voters get their media from corporate networks that spoon feed them sensationalist news stories, fear mongering, and horrid rhetoric that any freshman year philosophy student would scoff at. Very very few voters from my personal experience even know that there are numerous sites to check on a candidates voting record, platform, expenditures, etc.

Sorry for the rant. I honestly do not care if republicans or democrats win, as I believe politics in the US need to change outright after having worked in the system. The sad truth is that it takes an enormously courageous politician to vote against their party's leader. When the speaker/minority leader tells them to jump, the standard response is "how high?".

I grew up in rural Louisiana in a fairly uneducated family, I was the first to graduate from college and the first to receive my doctorate. I've gone from considering myself a Christian conservative republican to an agnostic libertarian with a slightly left leaning economic stance.

This was an email conversation between my sister and I this morning.

Sister: Yeah today I voted for bad bad and bad rather than worse worse and worse! I don't know why we couldn't have had a good tea party candidate like almost every other state!

Brother: A tea party candidate? REALLY? Do you even know what the tea party is? Or what the platform is? You don't, because NO ONE else does either. The majority of tea party candidates were all smoke and mirrors. Even the founder of the original tea party movement said it became a horrid amalgamation of people who only wanted to use it to get on the bandwagon to get elected. Unfortunately many people fell for it. I think if I would have woke up this morning and saw that Chrintine ODonnell had been elected I would have seriously considered moving to another country. Look at Wisconsin, Feingold, the only senator who voted against the patriot act, lost to a high school dropout.

I don't really care who winds up with a majority in either the senate or the house, but there were a lot of stupid decisions made last night. I think everyone I talked to who voted had no idea what the platform and/or voting records of those they were voting for. I literally had someone say to me they were voting for Texas governor because he was an aggie and more handsome than Bill White. sigh. And also, I'll just say this, I really don't consider myself a democrat or a republican, if anything I'm a libertarian, but I don't let those terms decide who I will vote for. Were it up to me, alcohol and cigarettes would be illegal and cannabis and gay marriage would be legal. But that's just me. BTW, I'm agnostic now. Ah well, if you really want to be scared (lol), in the history of American politics, the only three times control has switched parties during the midterm of a president, that president was elected for a second term.

tl;dr: A majority of US citizens don't do the proper research on their elected officials and base their votes on a couple words and/or political pundit fear mongering. A once Christian, conservative republican brother confesses to being an agnostic libertarian to his rural republican sister.