“There ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between a Democrat and Republican,” proclaimed Alabama’s 45th Governor George Corley Wallace Jr. He was a U.S. presidential candidate for four consecutive elections in which he sought the Democratic Party nomination in 1964, 1972 and 1976 and was the American Independent Party candidate in 1968. As of 2016, he remains the last third-party candidate to receive pledged Electoral College votes from any state. He was paralyzed by an assassin’s bullet for his political views. He was a white pro-segregationist who eventually renounced segregation.
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama is one of my favorite songs. Alabama has always marched politically and economically to its own tune. The Alabama nail-biting Senatorial race of December 12, 2017, that pitted the political pundits and establishment’s perceived slam-dunk winner Republican candidate Ray Moore, against longshot-underdog Democrat Doug Jones — was a Sweet Home Alabama heart-lifting moment — and confirmation of Wallace’s proclamation. Alabama voters defied the political pundits and experts by electing Jones.
Alabama proved America is on the road of recovery from its political coma.
Alabama heads the list of American states and was the first state to prove in the closing weeks of politically dysfunctional 2017 America — that it is time to fix America’s political infrastructure constructively in a bipartisan way. The “good ol’ way.”
There is no more room in America’s political infrastructure for dysfunctional political practices in the New World Disorder.
Alabama not only rebutted the political infrastructure in the U.S. Senate, but metaphorically speaking, signaled a political realignment to political consensus and bipartisanship — with its two U.S. senators each representing one of America’s two dominant political parties in the Senate. Hopefully, ‘Bama’s Crimson Tide will sweep across America and do what is politically and economically right — for All Americans.
All Americans are Alabamians!
America must heal. Enough is enough. There is a limit to party loyalty, dysfunctionality and the resulting political convulsions. America has reached that limit.
The two major parties have imploded and are trying to figure out how to restructure as more voters register as independents and political movements are on the rise. Political consensus, starting with bipartisanship, is an absolute must if America’s physical infrastructure of cyber networks, schools, hospitals, highways, roads, bridges, railroads, airports and …. are to be upgraded to 21st-century standards — and create the jobs America so desperately needs. America’s infrastructure is third-world, a topic I discuss at length in my Custom Maid for New World Disorder trilogy and blog of June 29, 2017 titled America’s Infrastructure First!
America can and will survive, thrive and continue to guide in 2018. Alabama was just the first step in America’s political reconstruction.