The Nuts And Bolts Of Democracy

The international USA based news
is full of 'Trump did this/did not do that'
type commentaries and stories, as befits 
the news cycles where the media so readily
adopts the tone of a soap opera.

How else are they to report a self-made
 'bad boy' billionaire with such a flare
for self promotion? I don't blame them,
though I tire of them reporting Trump
when he announces 'something big',
that becomes yet another damp squib,
to be filed and forgotten, along
with all his previous bankruptcies.

What I find myself less ready to forgive
is how much, whilst they help set up
future damp squibs, the US media ignores
so many of the other, smaller, stories
where democracy has resulted in
a win-win situations, and further ignore
the numbers for November 5th 2024.

435 House of Representatives seats are up for grabs,
as are 34 out of 100 Senate seats, maybe 30 mayors
11 state governorships, 10 attorney generals,
10 state treasurers, 7 secretaries of state 
and hundreds of seats for the 52 state legislatures.

Last but not least, some states elect their judges.

In 2020 an estimated 599 seats were fought over,
and decided, and 24 states held plebiscites
on issues that included decriminalising cannabis for personal use. 

Whatever the number of seats up for grabs,
and different plebiscites, this time looks like the last, 
the maintenance for the future is what matters.