I'm feeling optimistic, believe it or not., Yep, me, of all people. Hopefully, this will be the last straw that causes the Republican party to collapse so that a new third party can emerge. That idea may be pie in the sky; but that's my hope, anyways. It may not happen; but we have never been closer to it happening.

People are angry. No one on the left voted for the Obamacare debacle because they wanted to see what's now a FIVE BILLION DOLLAR no bid contract handed to the first lady's college chum for web sites that don't even work... et cetera, et ceteri, ad nauseum. Nobody on the other side voted election after election for fiscal responsibility just to watch the debt grow to nineteen effing trillion of our grandchildren's dollars with no end in sight. Both sides promise change; both deliver the same old inept graft guzzling establishment. There's only one party. It's the party of Rockefeller and Kennedy. No folly once enacted gets repealed. Every trust fund gets raped. Important functions get bungled beyond belief. While the powers that be congratulate themselves, wallowing in perks, and the problem grows. 

Both these parties are corrupt cesspools. Both can go to hell. I don't see the Democrat power machine collapsing. They have such a stranglehold on reverse racism, on voter fraud, on machine politics, and especially on votes outright bought with the public dime. Poverty plantations vote for them en bloc. Media is in their pocket. They lie like rugs, their delusional fans drink it all up. You cannot distinguish their charisma from sociopathy. To top it off, when angry young people vote for Bernie, surprise, the party steals their delegates and hands them to the queen of corruption. How do you change that kinda party?

So it's up to the republican party to die now and make way for an alternative.

That's my daydream, anyways. 

I don't foresee that an administration so corrupt that it appoints as its attorney general a lawyer from a firm specializing in defending banksters at a time when banksters had just brought the economy to its knees, ensuring that not a single one of them bastids got indicted, then kept him on after he'd been declared in contempt of Congress cause he lied about running guns to drug lords... I don't see an administration as foul as this one indicting Hillary, no matter how many felonies her secret server emails entail, nor how fraudulent her money laundering foundation may be. This administration routinely uses the organs of government to ensure partisan victory. Nor do I see media granting Carson or Rubio a respectful hearing any time soon. It's gonna be the bombast running versus the bidge. The corrupt bidge will win. The right will have to form a new party.

That's my hope. A party dedicated to de-funding countless subsidies, ending strangling regulation, ending these phony futile wars on everything from drugs to climate... at least up until they, too, get bought by lobbyists.

So saith Pollyanna.

I don't envy the next president anyway. She will inherit a foreign policy in shambles, an economy on life support, and an alienated electorate.