Where we are and how we arrrived here

We have arrived at an unplanned destination. a place we would prefer not to be
but have no choice. This is the where American political system has brought us.

What will transpire in 2016 could change American politics forever, but we have
no idea if it will be for the better or worse.

Today, in this presidential year the Democrat and Republican parties are doing
 "business as usual". They "established" rules to ensure the people have less to
say about who will party nominees then they think, rules naturally written by
the unseen political establishment, who are finally being unmasked!

This year is like no other. Of the twenty-three official candidates who vied for
their party's nomination  five are "outsiders", four Republicans and one Democrat.
From time to time outsiders enter political battles, but rarely are given a second
thought, merely viewed as a nuisance without a serious message or well funded.
Not this year!

Both parties have seen outsiders generate more than populism among the few.
Three have become a force, getting the largest crowds, garnering large votes
in the primaries and in the case of Republicans dispatched most of their 'insider"
challengers.

What should be heralded is not. All the talk of the people choosing party nominees
is just that, talk!  It will not be allowed if the people whose names we do not know
have anything to say about it. It is THEIR show, and the voting public should remain
seated in the audience and be quiet.

As of today we are down to five candidates, three Republicans and two Democrats.
Three outsiders are still making waves nine months before the election.

The Democrat will soon be dispatched, his entertainment value has run its course,
its time for 'coronation' of the chosen one to begin.

Not so on the Republican side, the two outsiders are presenting the Republican with
a problem they may not be able to handle. The candidates, although ideologically
different, agree on most important issues, the reason they receive the most votes.

But, aside from ensuring an outsider is not the nominee a larger concern looms, how
can we stop the "800 lb. gorilla", Donald Trump who has become a larger than life
political power.

It is Trump who has become the media 'darling' and 'devil'. He is built up like a
supermarket tabloid headline this week, only to be brought down in next week's
headline.

The discussion is not what Trump or Ted Cruz have to say and why their messages
resonate, its how neither man is deserving of the Republican Party's nomination.

The better question, is the Republican Party deserving of its rank and file members allegiance!