The year of enlightenment

"That is except for one thing - both sides have seen crony capitalism and government corruption up close and personal."

So far, this has been a year like no other in my lifetime. Seriously. It is like the light has gone off for many, regardless of which side of the aisle they reside on. What is interesting is this - as the progressives drifts further off into la-la land, and the conservatives become more Constitution centric, the two sides are looking as similar as night and day. That is except for one thing - both sides have seen crony capitalism and government corruption up close and personal.

I am now going to give Donald Trump some props. He called it out early in the process. Some thought he was just being a crybaby. But he was not. He saw the system for what it is. Rigged. Corrupt. And that is on our side. The Democratic side is even worse. But it took some leaked emails for the Bernie Sanders side of the Democratic Party even longer to realize this. And what the emails showed were the warts, sores and everything else which haunts the upper echelons of the DNC. 

Truthfully, when after Hillary had the votes and became "presumptive", that is the first time Trump invited the Bernie supporters to join him. Not because his positions and Bernie's were similar - they are not. He invited them because he was the only one left who could go to Washington and fix what is broken. To throw a rock into the bee's nest. To kick over the tables. You pick the axiom. You know what I mean.

My feeling is this. This year has been a pivotal year in our politics. More and more people are paying attention. People who think they have fair knowledge of our system (myself included), have found out just how much they don't know. Yes, I am talking about the soft underbelly. The sleaze. The corruption. The greased skid into being a lobbyist. Not to be crude, but the K-Street bullshit. 

And by the way. Please don't think this corruption stops at K-Street. It then travels almost 1,000 miles and heads for St. Paul. Yes, our beloved state capital is also suffering from the same terminal disease. And more and more people are seeing the jig is up. No more playing to the stupid. The jig is up.

Where do we go from here? At breakfast this morning, a good friend said sometime to find consensus, you need to only look for a square inch on the table to start with. Amen. This might be our square inch. Let us build on this. This could be the beginning of our "Year of Enlightenment". Stay tuned...