Hey guys, Cassandra calling.  From Troy, three thousand two hundred years ago.  I’m a prophetess after all.  I hate to stomp on your euphoria but ….

On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the United States political system experienced a “Blue Tsunami” but, while voters elected more Democratic Party candidates than Republicans, they did not endorse that political party’s leadership.  Instead, they rejected the brutal corruption, deception and immorality in office of “the Donald”, Donald John Trump, which is a very different thing.  In doing so, they joined important Republicans who had already done so, appalled by his the betrayal of his 2024 campaign promises involving putting an end to perpetual war and focusing on economic bread and butter issues, on minimizing polarization and putting America first, they joined people like media personalities Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes and Jackson Hinkle, like former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, like former members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greens and Thomas Massie and current Senator Rand Paul.  Unlike those honest protestors, the current Congressional leaders of the Democratic Party, Hakeem Jeffries in the House and Chuck Schumer in the Senate, both from New York, are bought and paid for representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel firsters, as are a major portion of the Democratic Party’s Congressional Representatives and Senators, those who will control the new Congress that will assume its role on either January 3^rd or 4^th, 2027 (the 3^rd is on a Sunday).  While some progressives and democratic socialists won, and that was amazing and heartening, the vast majority of the victors were the same old crowd just waiting for their turn at the trough. So, notwithstanding the wishes of the electorate as clearly indicated in the recent elections, the more things change, the more too many are likely to stay the same.  That President Trump responded to his electoral defeat by optimistically stating the he looks forward to “working” with the new Congressional majority may well tell us more than we want to know.  I was pleasantly surprised that the election took place at all, and that its results were accepted, but in large part that was due to the Supreme Court’s unusual decision not to become involved in support of Trumpian aspirations-

There were superficially positive developments but they are probably largely illusory in the greater scheme of things.  Or they will be without further action on our part.  Real action, not just gripes and complaints.  While AIPAC, which has long controlled both major United States political parties, is facing an apparently unprecedented structural crisis of faith within the United States’ citizenry, its control and Israel’s influence over the Congress and both major political parties is only superficially diminished.  It’s true that for the first time in modern political history we saw marquee progressive candidates win major statewide races, not only in spite of AIPAC’s opposition but by actively campaigning against it, AIPAC still commands hundreds of millions of dollars, owns (or leases) the majority of the Congress and has hundreds of allies in positions of political, economic and military power.  Thus United States foreign policy, where traditionalist Democratic Party legislators are at least as anxious as President Trump to do Israel’s bidding, is unlikely to change in any material manner.  The new Democratic Congressional majority is unlikely to insist that the kidnapped Venezuelan president be released and returned to office, or that the oil plundered from Venezuela be returned.  Or that the rightwing mini-Trumps installed by United States and Israeli intelligence agencies in most of Latin America be replaced in honest democratic elections.  Instead of a quest for peace, they are likely to insist on enlargement of the proxy war against Russia through the puppet regime in the Ukraine and in renewed antagonism against China, especially with respect to its province of Taiwan.  The reality is that now, after the election, the goal of the Democratic leadership, just like that of their Republican counterparts, involves, not the “common welfare” but securing a victory in the 2028 elections.  But perhaps that will require more than just embarrassing Republicans in the executive branch and the Trump family “syndicate” in particular.  Perhaps, for a change, it will require more than just instilling fear in the hearts of potential voters.  Perhaps it will require meeting the demands of the electorate for peace, economic prosperity and an emphasis on the welfare of the United States population, whether citizens or not, rather than filling the coffers of the military industrial complex (now fused with the intelligence agencies into the Deep State) against which Ike warned us so long ago.  But that is not a likely scenario.

At any rate, don’t expect all that much in kept promises.  A thorough investigation into the sickly putrid Jeffrey Epstein saga would embarrass too many Democrats and too many very powerful political donors, and it would provide devastating evidence of the immorality of United States, European and Israeli intelligence agencies for whom pedophilia and murder were and continue to be useful tools.  That is an inquiry which the Deep State will guide into a maze of obfuscation from which, as in the case of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy or the downing of New York’s Twin Towers, verity is very unlikely to emerge.  And as to the quest for peace?  That would eliminate the greatest profit generation enterprise on the planet, perpetual war, which in turn would stem the redistribution of wealth from the populace to the billionaire caste, the only form of socialism Americans are taught to respect.  Thus that too will be deflected through manufactured threats designed to maintain us all in a state of perpetual anxiety and insecurity (beware the Muslim hordes trying to steal our democracy, and the communists and the socialists, and the foreigners yearning to breathe free).  Support by leaders of both major parties for the Zionist quest for a Greater Israel may be obfuscated but it will probably not be diminished, with efforts made to humanize genocide and ethnic cleansing paid for by United States taxpayers.  Those crimes against humanity are, as far as both Democrats and Republicans are concerned, immoral only when our interests are negatively impacted.

There will be plenty of subpoenaing to embarrass Republicans but not enough to effect meaningful change other than, perhaps, electorally, and the response will be plenty of vetoing, resulting in more government gridlock and polarization and the federal judiciary will become more politicized than ever.  Explanations blaming others will bloom and befuddle us all, as usual.  And it is all too likely that we will revert to our instinctive emotional shells, backing the political leaders who got and get us into the messes we and the rest of the world (other than the privileged few) inhabit.

Still, not everything is depressingly pessimistic.  There may be a few rays of hope.  After all, America First Republicans and progressive democratic socialists have somehow germinated out of the political compost that surrounds us.  Thus, notwithstanding the foregoing, there may be an out, but that is not a likely scenario.  It would require us to embrace the democratic socialist rebels in the Democratic Party and the America First rebels in the Republican Party and to select from among them, candidates for the presidency in 2028 rather than from among traditional politicians, politicians like JD Vance or Marco Rubio on the Republican side or Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear and Gretchen Whitmer on the Democratic side, all of whom are imposed on us by AIPAC and the billionaire caste (interesting name for a band).  Perhaps the electorate will gravitate to people who have rejected AIPAC and its bribes (errr, donations, now to be disguised through a third party maze), people like Joe Kent, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Jackson Hinkle, Marjorie Taylor Greens, Thomas Massie or Rand Paul on the Republican side or the newly minted senator James Talarico, or Cori Bush, or Jamaal Bowman, or Julia Salazar or Brandon Johnson in the Democratic Party.  Unfortunately, Zohran Mamdani is not eligible having been born abroad.  But they would have to survive the calumnious brutality of the legacy media and that is a feat rarely accomplished.

So, for now, perhaps all week long, let’s enjoy the sort of defeat of the disgusting, corrupt and hypocritical Trumpian MAGA political parody and its AIPAC masters, but let’s not hold our breath awaiting better times at the hands of their Democratic Party opponents.  Only we, acting together, ignoring fear and focusing on our hope and decency can make a difference; a difference whose goal is not the accumulation of wealth and power or world hegemony but the common attainment of equity, justice and opportunity, of the “common welfare” promised by the United States Constitution. 

The recent election will not take us there but perhaps a door has been forced opened and we can stick a leg in to keep it that way.

At least for a while.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television in both Colombia and abroad; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.