"The Fear of Loss."

There's an old saying that's worth coughing up about now.  Here goes...

"...The fear of loss is a far greater motivator than the anticipation of gain."

What does that have to do with the price of an 1/8th in beautiful downtown Santa Ana, you might ask?  Here's what:

Did you know that the political party not in power has retaken the House of Representatives in 19 out of 20 Mid-Term Elections, going all the way back to the 1940's?  And the Senate has fallen to the out-of-power Party in the vast majority of mid-terms as well?  

That's all to be expected.  People don't get all worked up for the mid-terms.  A POTUS battle isn't in the offing, people are usually either lethargic or resigned to their current political plight, and with exception of those who are clamoring to regain lost power, they're usually too busy to be bothered.  That's the normal situation.  Normal...

But now is not "normal."  I've been paying fairly close attention to the news lately, and I've noticed hoards of folks chasing Republicans through airports, hounding them out of restaurants, doxxing them at their homes and work, screaming and yelling at them without mercy as if they had some God-given right to do so. 

Assuming they believe in God, that is.  An assumption I'm not prepared to embrace at the moment, by the way.

A MSMedia that for the most part reports only slanted opinion masquerading as "news," an overt and incessant hostility towards all things Conservative, and now a caravan of 10 - 15,000 individuals from Central America headed our way we're being told are "economic migrants," but since they tell us they have every right to be here, look suspiciously like an invasion, I offer up an observation (God, I love long sentences!):

The People are Very Afraid:  They're afraid they're losing their country.  Or perhaps have already lost it.  And if they were ever complacent or lethargic or too busy to get involved, no longer.  

It's for that reason that I suggest we may be just as surprised at the outcome on November 6th, 2018 as we were on November 8th, 2016...