I am going to read my crystal ball and predict the next few elections.....

With the Democrat party veering so much to the left, they rejected me as a registered Democrat.
With Trump over the top and in your face crap.......
He is pushing the republicans to a point that appears removed from reality.

This will leave a lot of folk like me, in the middle for the most part, that just want it done without party first partisanship.

Tired of the media being the news.....

I don’t see a third party, yet, but I see new blood in both parties.

In a very weird way, Trump has highlighted what is so wrong with ALL of it, as everyone has come out of hiding to attack him, justified or not, it’s BS.

I see a new awareness sprouting and neither side will be able to capture it, because that ain’t part of it.....

raydawg wrote on 07/05/18 at 15:12:06:
 

that's fair, but it also might mean another 4-8 years or more of Trumpism, by then we'll be just like Russia

With the Democrat party veering so much to the left, they rejected me as a registered Democrat.

or you rejected them

Same outcome.

Libertarian, Green, both good choices for the extremes of the parties, the problem is that in America we are all about the us vs them team duopoly process, would rather "win" with someone we don't like than lose with someone we like.


In a very weird way, Trump has highlighted what is so wrong with ALL of it, as everyone has come out of hiding to attack him, justified or not, it’s BS.

Before Trump, there were others, MANY others, Ron Paul, the birth of the libertarian party, and now "Justice Democrats", Bernie Sanders....   and what exactly has Trump actually done to fix the "wrong" (what do you consider wrong here anyway? there are SO MANY things, campaign finance, both sides becoming more extreme, the general malaise of the public?)

That is EXACTLY what the two party system wants, divide those elements/votes, so they can't really threaten them, that is why it hasn't happened.

Trump has shown folks WILL UNITE under one cause, as a foem on "none of the above"

Yes, I know you hate him, yada,yada, yada,.......

I am not talking about the PERSON, but the reason why, he was touted from the get go as a novelty and NOT REAL......
That is why folks choose him, because they didn't want the same old regurgitation of the two party system.

Someone with more CIVILITY and DECORUM, and a ENCOMPASSING message of EVERYBODY, will figure it out, and they will be a force to reckon with.

You saw money made no difference, Hillary had the best ever politico machine $$$$$$ wise, for naught.

That was a WIN FOR ALL OF US!  

I agree, no one I know exsist presently......
However Web, would you have ever guessed right after Obama won his first term, with majorities in both the senate (veto proof) and the house, that Trump would follow his term?

No way Jose 😋

WebsterMark wrote on 07/06/18 at 07:58:34:


That "energy" still exist, and from what I am observing in a area of the country that I would peg around 25% right, 75% left, that the energy is growing........

Not so much "pro" Trump, but "anti" same old tired bullshit of the entrenched political hacks and their accomplices, in the press, business, academia, etc......

Just look at the negativity numbers of the media, etc.....
The wolf is eating those lil' chicken(shits) whole, as they continue to whine the sky is falling......

I still believe it isn't Trump, anybody with a real personality beyond a used car salesman mentality, shock jock, with a middle class honest message.......
Yes, less governing, on the federal level, more get out of the way and let prosperity flourish, first, and let social issues be discussed/addressed at the local level, etc,

Folks ain't dumb, sometimes our emotions get sidetracked, and we fall prey into thinking caring is in giving, without ensuring our resources are being utilized properly, that only sets up resentments......

By us, when we feel we are being taken advantage of, and them, when we turn off the flow of their dependency.

That recipe does not work in raising a child to self sufficiency, who will reap the rewards of self worth, nor your neighbor, who refuses to get healthy but depend on the generosity (guilt) of others......

Web, I believe the truth, as in the cream will always rise to the top, will win, in the end.....

As in life, in general, lessons can take a life time, hell, it took me 50 F'N years to learn I can't drink    
But because I denied it, for 50 years, didn't change the fact of the "truth" of the matter.

We ALL want the same peace, love, happiness, its just that some will buy a Yugo from a fast talking salesman, first, and it takes them a little longer to arrive