2016 Postmortem

having been an occasional 'lurker', that I think (as I've stated in this post) http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2635142

the potential for a massive political re-alignment exists, that populists have been artificially split by social issues for decades, and were they to unite to a new political party, and agree to fight their social issues outside of the party, they could rise overnight. If I really wanted this to happen, I wouldnt be saying it here. I'm saying there is a huge risk at dumping a large number of people in a basket and tossing them out - they might be excluded here, but thery have plenty of independents and disgruntled republicans to join with. And social technology never dreamed of 2 decades ago. Kind of like 'Arab Spring'. One thing that should not go unnoticed about Trump, is that he upset the entire political establishment, pundits, media, campaign war chest comparisons etc. with George Will as the poster boy.

A very crude analogy would be Fred Flintstone putting the cat out, the cat jumping through the window, and putting Fred out, leaving Fred locked out yelling 'Wilma!' - not locked out of the party, but locked out of relevance in the political arena. This is a very dangerous time to be an echo chamber (IMO)