Aside from the common vernacular of ‘broken arrow‘ referencing a loss of a nuclear weapon it also means:
“a code phrase that a ground unit is facing imminent destruction from enemy attack and all available air forces within range are to provide air support immediately.”
In essence, with enemy completely overwhelming a position – a military commander calls in direct fire upon themselves in a last-ditch effort to at least retain some of their own forces in the aftermath.
For the sake of this discussion do not consider the reference ‘federal politicians’ (ie. DC congress and Senate); but rather consider the term “broken arrow” a metaphor for the totality of the past eight years and the collapse of the Democrat political apparatus in state House seats and state Senate seats.
Currently:
- State House Majority Control: 38 states Republican / 12 states Democrat
- State Senate Majority Control: 37 states Republican / 17 states Democrat / 1 state tied.
- State Governors: 34 Republican / 15 Democrat / 1 Independent
If you put a blue marble on a table for each of the Democrat politicians in state office and a red marble on the table for each of the Republican politicians in state office the table would be roughly 65% red marbles and 35% blue marbles.
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