2016, a great change

Many pundits, bloggers, and political junkies are going nuts over this election, trying to figure out what everything is so different; why the rules dont work, and their personal heroes arent winning.

Quite simply, its because we're at the generational shift.

The WWII generation were active in politics, and the two parties reflected their ideals. Those ideals didnt really start to change until the 1960s. The same time the earliest Baby Boomers came of age to vote. Its not that Im blaming the Boomers in any way, but we have to accept the changes as fact:
The entire civil rights movement, LBJ's "Great Society", the sexual revolution, he war on povery, war on drugs, and all the other massive changes that they brought about.

But now, they are retiring, and in some cases, passing on, just like their parents did. And the younger generations are taking over the powers and choosing new fights over different ideals.

The elderly democrats are still trying to push for all the same things they've been fighting for since they got in office. Sadly, some are getting so senile, they're still fighting for rights and privileges already won decades ago. But the modern country isnt interested in these causes anymore.

The old democrat position that it should be easier to get an abortion than it is to buy a pack of cigarettes or an extra-large slurpee doesnt hold with today's younger generations. Even among the liberal democrats, the position trends towards "I have no right to tell others what to do."

Second Amendment? Same thing; only the older democrats, and those they've managed to keep ignorant, fear firearms. Everyone else says"if you want on, buy it. If you dont, then dont." Of course, even the most ardent pro-gun bunnies agree that criminals and crazies shouldnt be allowed to own any.

I wont go through the entire list of positions. I will say that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are speaking to the middle class (whats left of it) and the blue collar citizenry of America. These two are hearing and agreeing with what "We the People" say are our biggest problems. They have realized that the Baby Boomer generation, and those beliefs and ideals, is fading from control (just as the WWII generation did) and Gen X, Y, and Millennials have their own take on the old issues, totally new political issues, their own priorities, and ideas of how to fix everything.

Bernie and Donald arent doing well because their supporters are stupid, reckless, angry, or any of the other excuses used by the "talking heads" to explain why their methods of predicting election results dont work anymore. Bernie and Donald are doing so well because they realize these new generations want new solutions that actually might work to the problems.