What an interesting two weeks since Election Day. Since Mercury stationing retrograde Nov. 6, and with Mercury square Neptune, President Barack Obama was re-elected by a resounding electoral and sizable popular vote majority. Senate Democrats increased their majority while House Republicans by and large kept theirs. In his continuing campaign to be even more of a detestable dick than he was during the campaign, Mitt Romney proclaimed that to be a successful vote-getting Democrat, you need to bribe voters with “gifts” like dental care and college financial aid.
The consequences of the 2012 election are beginning to poke their little pointed heads out of the ground, and I am myself cavorting happily on a big fluffy bed of schadenfreude.
The ‘job creators’ who went all in to purchase Mitt Romney’s presidency have gone to Plan B. In light of Obama’s re-election — a mandate for Obamacare and tax fairness — they’re taking their resentment and anxiety about the anticipated reduction of their profits out on their employees and their unions. So begins the Wagnerian opera about the inevitable end of the 10-year-long Bush-era tax cuts, the 30-year jihad of de-regulated corporations, and the uber-rich turning government guns on the poor and working classes.
We could be looking at the beginning of a national health care system and a more equitable, compassionate nation. Because of that, it looks like there is some karma coming. Some of the mighty are already fighting it, kicking and clawing.