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In this Election Season...Something's Gotta Give!


When an irresistible force such as you
Meets an old, immovable object like me

You can bet as sure as you live

 Something’s Gotta Give
Something’s Gotta Give…

 
The old song rings true in this political season. An irresistible force of nature is the political electorate. The old school, and by that I mean the corporate and entrenched Establishment makes up the old, immovable object.

 
At some point, you know Something’s Gotta Give. Many people have predicted the death of the two-party system in this election cycle. We do have other political parties to be sure, but not powerful parties with any chance of winning the Presidency.

 
There is a Green Party, there’s the Libertarian Party, and other fringe parties and candidates. In other countries, there are various parties that must form coalitions in order to gain a majority to govern. That is where we are heading, I suspect. But not this time.

 
There’s a great book by Jonathon Alter about Obama’s 2012 election, called The Center Holds. With the rise of the Tea Party and the discontent after the economic collapse of 2008, there is a growing rumble from the electorate that the traditional coalitions will not survive.

 
The electorate is telling us that eventually there needs to be a revolution, a way to shake things up. All these things make the collapse of the two party system seem inevitable.  The irresistible force has butted up against that old, immovable object in this cycle. But for the time being, my prediction is that the Center Holds.
 

However, sooner or later, Somethings’s Gotta Give.
 

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