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We Made a Mistake. Tuesday’s Election Shows We Know It.

We Made a Mistake. Tuesday’s Election Shows We Know It.

Last updated on: November 7, 2025 at 7:15 pm by Rebecca Hamilton

We Made a Mistake. Tuesday’s Election Shows We Know It. 2025-11-07T19:15:04-07:00 Rebecca Hamilton

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For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea 8:7

Last Tuesday’s election was a big 180 on the part of the voters of this country. The message it sent in terms of the overall dissatisfaction people are feeling about the direction of this country was decisive.

It turns out that I’m not the only one who loves America. I’m also not the only one who wants to live in a democracy instead of a military dictatorship.

And I’m not the only one who is tired of government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires.

The election was a decisive change in sentiment from a year ago when Americans re-elected a corrupt, sexual predator who had previously tried to overturn our government in a failed coup attempt.

We chose a moral degenerate who sexually abuses women and was besties with an infamous sex trafficker and pedophile. We elected a president who had set up a phony “university” that cheated people out of their money, and was restricted from operating a charity in New York because Trump had been “using the charity as his private checkbook.”

Then we piled the cherry on top this decision by also handing control of both houses of Congress to Republican puppet people who put the Republican Party ahead of the God they claim they worship in order to get votes, the country they clearly do not care about, and, of course, far, far ahead of you and me.

We’ve been reaping the whirlwind ever since.

The election Tuesday was a reflection of the fact that I’m not the only person in this country who thinks we made a terrible mistake in the last election.

While the near unanimous degree of the turnaround this vote represents was a relief to anyone who wants to see America survive, it remains to be seen if it is a bellwether or a momentary expression of rage in the course of events.

Remember: Trump tried to overturn our government. He staged a coup attempt because he wasn’t man enough to take losing the 2020 election. Trump has been found guilty of sexual assault. He used a “charity” he set up as his personal checkbook. He bankrupted casinos.

Let me say that again: He bankrupted casinos.

And we elected him again.

He’s a moral degenerate of Homeric proportions, yet the clergy and religious leadership of whole denominations, including many of our right wing, buddies-of-billionaires Catholic bishops, run after him like a pack of male dogs chasing a female dog in heat.

I leave these fallen religious leaders to God. But I will say I wouldn’t want to be them on the day they stand before the Lord.

So no. I’m not going to jump up and say that Tuesday’s election is like the Battle of Midway in WWII, and hooray, the war is turning. We’ve been here before. We got a snootful of him and voted him out in 2020, and that was before he went totally, flippin’, I-am-the-Lord-of-the-universe nuts the way he is now.

I think Tuesday’s election showed that most Americans love this country and are not ready to hand it over to a Mad King and his billionaire running buddies. We’ve studied our visages in the mirror, and we don’t think we look good with the feces the video Trump posted showed him dumping on us smeared all over our faces.

We don’t want to be afraid of our government.

We don’t want to be hungry, and scared, and unable to get medical care when we’re sick.

We don’t want to have to work three or four jobs while our kids stay at home alone, raising themselves, so Trump and his buddies can hoard more billions.

We’d like to be able to buy a home, feed our families, go to the doctor when we’re sick, say what we think, go where we want, worship as we believe, and make our own decisions about our own lives. We want to be Americans. We want to be free.

Tuesday’s election was hopeful. The No Kings rallies are hopeful.

If they hadn’t happened, there would be no hope. Because, sadly, if these past months have shown us one thing, it’s that We the People are on our own.

Right wing billionaires have an absolute stranglehold on our institutions, our press, and even our churches. Nobody is going to save this country for us. We have to do it ourselves.

And that’s ok. Because it is our country. It belongs to us. Not them.

Fallen clergy cannot separate us from God. And corrupt institutions and politicians cannot take away our freedoms.

Not unless we let them.

In Tuesday’s election, a lot of Americans said We Won’t Let You.

They said the same thing with the No Kings Day demonstrations.

No Kings Day scared the wannabe dictator and his wannabe dictatorettes. The wannabe dictator published a video showing himself flying a jet and dumping feces down on the heads of the American people. I think the symbolism was pretty clear.

The dictatorettes, including Republican members of Congress and the entire right wing mediasphere, put out orchestrated lies saying the demonstrations were violent, that George Soros paid all 7 million demonstrators, etc.

These are just bald-faced, deliberate lies, told by shameless liars.

The wannabe dictator and his dictatorettes reacted to last Tuesday’s election with more of their usual — and boringly predictable — lies.

They claim (surprise!!) that the Democrats who were elected are communists and terrorists, etc.

We may talk about Communism and this regime in another post. Suffice it to say that the Trump regime is using government power to coerce private corporations to give percentages of ownership of their companies to the government in order to get favorable trade deals and presumably avoid government retribution.

The Trump-appeasing corporate press calls this coerced taking of private companies, “government capitalism.”

But what it looks like is government seizure of private companies. What it appears to be is nationalizing corporations.

“Government capitalism” sounds like a synonym for Communism, and I mean real Communism, not the lies and name calling in right wing media.

As for terrorism: Are the Democrats grabbing people off the streets and dragging them off to prison without any charge or basis at all? Or is it Trump and the Republicans?

Are the Democrats using masked gestapo to beat up people and spray preachers with pepper spray while they pray? Or is it Trump and the Republicans?

Are the Democrats threatening to deport or “investigate” anyone who disagrees with them? Or is it Trump and the Republicans?

Was it the Democrats who said “We can do this the hard way or the easy way” as a threat to force ABC/Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel? Or was it the Trump regime?

Was it the Democrats who tore down the East Wing of the White House without Congressional approval? Or was it Trump?

Tuesday’s election could be indeed be a turning point in the fight to save America’s democracy, just as the Battle of Midway was in the war for the Pacific. But that will only prove true if we look at it as what the Battle of Midway was, and what Tuesday’s election has to be: One very important battle in what is going to be a long, hard-fought war.

We can’t let No Kings Day and last Tuesday’s election be one-offs.

Freedom is not free.

We’re going to have to do it again. And again. And again.

We have to close our ears to the lies and propaganda and focus on the 10 Commandments, the Gospels and the Constitution. We have to keep the main thing as the main thing.

We have to save our democracy. If we don’t do that, nothing else we vote on, no issue, nothing else matters. If we lose our democracy, we lose it all.

We need to do what it takes to save our country.

We are the People.

We the People created America. We the People built America. We the People have defended America every time it was in danger.

America is in danger now.

And We the People will save it.

Note: the phrase “reap the whirlwind” refers to Hosea 8:7. “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” In context, it is talking about the punishment that is going to happen to Israel because it followed false gods instead of the real God. That makes it a pertinent quote when it’s applied to right wing Christians in America and their worship of the false Republican God and its Mad King.

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