After two years of relentless onslaught, humanity struck back on Election Day in America. Democrats won majorities of at least 54 Senators and 255 House seats. Two Senate races are still too close to call—in Alaska and Mississippi of all places. Five governorships were flipped blue. Numerous state legislatures were transformed.
This was a political tsunami—an extraordinary result.
However, this was not a political movement at its core. This was not a victory for Democrats, or even democracy per se. This was a rejection of anti-humanism. It was a full reversal of the trend towards valuing things over people. It was the self-preservation instinct of the human race waking up from a decade in a coma.
Before the midterms, Trump’s closing message was all about the Reflecting Pool—where he explained that “grass is like a human; grass has a life also.”
After getting rejected in the midterms, Trump’s first speech was not about how he would course correct for 350 million people. It was about his ballroom-führerbunker. It was yet another random, bizarre event focused exclusively on his obsession with turning DC into Mar-a-lago.
The president spent ten minutes marveling at a construction beam being raised into place. Not a word was spoken about the American people.
But Trump is just an avatar for the larger project of the broligarchs who funded him—the billionaire class shoving AI data centers down everyone’s throat. And the public has caught on.
Out of 45 ballot measures on data centers, 44 of them went against the industry—97.4% opposed. But the repudiation went deeper than that.
Perhaps the most consequential result of the midterms in the big picture was the transformation of Texas from ruby red into a blue state. James Talarico’s domination over Ken Paxton came after a campaign about empathy, love, and humanity. And Gina Hinojosa’s equally impressive victory over Governor Greg Abbott came on a platform explicitly opposing AI data centers.
Hinojosa and Talarico were not just running against a dominant GOP political establishment. They were running against Elon Musk’s money. He spent $150 million in Texas alone, and nearly a half billion dollars overall—making him the largest political donor in American history.
Nevertheless, Musk lost badly.
After moving his companies out of California to Texas with great fanfare—and blanketing the airwaves about “Talafreako”—Texans forcefully rejected Musk’s money. The man who thinks “humanity is a biological bootloader for AI” got his ass kicked—by humanity.
While this is just a start in the right direction, and Donald Trump can still do a lot of damage with his remaining time in office, we should all rejoice that it seems humanity has not given up on itself quite yet.
Take a moment. Exhale. You deserve it.
Yes, a *moment.* Too bad we're still facing an uphill battle with so many disingenuous Republicans in Democrats' clothing. No, they're not as bad but that can't be the standard. They have to be SO much better or we're still screwed. Things are moving in the right direction but we're nowhere near where we need to be. Not even close. Too bad so many of them are feckless wonders taking dirty money from AIPAC and the same dark money donors who fund the GOP. All of the money spends the same on either side of the aisle.
If we had the leadership we really need, then *this* wouldn't even be a question:
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/section-3-the-quickest-and-easiest
We'll see. We shall see.
We are human. We won this round.