Brady Bunch Claims Victory

...on an issue that got almost zero focus throughout the entire election process:



Meanwhile exit polls show that voters from gun owning households made up 42% of the electorate and voted against Obama by wide margins in spite of little focus on guns throughout this election. Imagine the margins if Obama, congressional dems, or the Brady Bunch try to make it an issue...

Say if they suddenly started pushing big headline grabbing gun control measures shortly after getting a candidate into office mainly on economic issues... let's call him Bill Clinton. Say they have some early successes due to congressional leaders supportive of the idea even though their constituents generally oppose it and just didn't see it as a major issue in the prior election.

Remember how that worked out? The early successes turned into a steady loss of congress, and then the White House, and eventually a reversal of their successes into irrelevance. Then as now they initially won primarily on the economic issues of the day and the people turned on them when they shifted their focus in office to measures that had nothing to do with the economy. Measures that conflicted with views that are strongly held by many, though tend to lose their attention when other issues keep such matters in the shadows or generally off the radar.

The Brady Bunch seems content to piss away any influence they may have had all over again by overplaying a faux mandate for their pet project. Will the rest of the Democratic Party feel so inclined? Will they stick to the issues that voters put them in office to deal with? Or will they go down the path of exploiting their new-found power to 'stick it' to the people who thought they'd actually be 'reasonable' this time around and stick to the issues they found so critical to prioritize them over others.

I fear that in the next four years we're going to have a hell of a fight on our hands, with the word 'mandate' misused to defend the unpopular stances of special interest groups, as if the Bill of Rights was subject to the slim ebb and and flow election cycles as opposed to the widespread super-majorities throughout the nation required to Amend the constitution.

In the long run they may only be shooting themselves in the foot... but I'd prefer to limit any unfriendly fire against the Constitution in the mean time. But I'm the nut... supposedly.