Take a moment to pull back, reflect...

[NeoGreen]

...and chill a bit...

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Hey, slightly older generation (I was 4 in 1969) are we witnessing the beginning of the seventh party system?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

I just feel like this whole early election cycle with outsiders like trump, cruz and Bernie striking a chord with so many dispersed but desperate groups of Americans (i.e. US Nationals, sorry my friendly neighborhood Canadians and Mexicans) that maybe "Something Is Happening Here..."

I feel a lot of energy "in the air"...

Does anyone agree?

[HassleCat]

1. Title of the song is "For What It's Worth"

One of the most enduring protest songs, because it could apply to so many situations.

[gelatinous cube]

2. Perhaps a new Era...

Since the turn of the century to the present years, politics, the economy all seem to be parallel with the American Gilded Age of the late 1800s. A quick glance in a history textbook shows how strikingly similar the 2000s have been to the late 19th early 20th centuries. The rise of Socialism during the 1900s, and now at the present day with Bernie Sanders is evidence of this. And guess what came after the Gilded Age? The Progressive Era, marked by Theodore Roosevelt with his policies on conservation of the environment, trust-busting and the Square deal. If history does repeat itself, then I am looking forward to the coming decade.

Here's to hoping the Americans of now can make the same decisions that saved America a century ago.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Trump is insider (think big business / corporatism). Cruz insider too (Ivy League).

They kind of have to play at being outsiders because nobody likes them personally.