{"id":60459,"date":"2026-11-06T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60459"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T17:15:06","slug":"midterm-shock-shakes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60459","title":{"rendered":"Midterm shock shakes the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">The shock of the midterm election result is continuing to be felt around our Planet Earth and if the worldwide reaction is like what I have seen already, then American voters will need to stand and take a bow for exhibiting extraordinary wisdom and courage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just think, no one had to fire a bullet to have their voice heard. All they had to was cast a ballot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend from South Australia sent me a message of congratulations. He is an astute follower of U.S. politics and the trends we follow. His message included this:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A health academic here, Dr. Tracy Westerman put it beautifully thus:<\/em> <em>Perhaps this is what these years have taught us: that a nation sometimes has to see the very worst of itself before it finds the will to choose something better. Americans looked cruelty in the face, and they refused to accept it as normal. As James Baldwin wrote, &#8220;Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.&#8221; America faced it. This isn&#8217;t the end of the fight, but it&#8217;s the beginning of the end.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shock of the midterm election result is continuing to be felt around our Planet Earth and if the worldwide reaction is like what I have seen already, then American voters will need to stand and take a bow for exhibiting extraordinary wisdom and courage. Just think, no one had to fire a bullet to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midterm shock shakes the world<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[7576,10630],"class_list":["post-60459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-political-news","tag-midterm-election","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60461,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60459\/revisions\/60461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}