PEQUOD'S REVENGE

The political sharks on both sides of the aisle have been circling the Middle-class and then savagely attacking whole swaths of livelihoods. The Democrats have ruined the economy with so much regulation, that welfare grows faster than jobs. Meanwhile the Republicans busy themselves with trading away our markets to corporate pirates who jump America's ship of state, taking jobs and profits offshore.

When Americans wonder why corporate America isn't joining the people in protesting high taxes, high regulation and sky high debt that threatens a financial meltdown, they cynically know the answer. If the corporation moves abroad, they get the best of both worlds, low wages from foreign workers and greater consumerism in the American market. So why protest rules that can be bypassed and finagled around? Instead just continue bribing the politicians to enact rules that hurt the upshot small business so it never gets big enough to compete with them.

The greedy jaws of politics and money are inbred in any government and unless it is thwarted, then elitist tyranny results. Americans feel both powerless and overwhelmed by our current government's systemic breeding ground for pay to play whoredom, that a quiet revolution is taking place among voters.   

 "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." (James Madison)

There is a long history of low voter turnout in American elections. Many Americans not registered to vote or voting rarely would defend their lapse of civic duty on the stench of both political parties systemic corruption. More importantly, they were tired and cynically frustrated that the more the campaigns promised change, the more things remained the same. Voting to some became a useless exercise of trading one dirty politician for another sleazy conman. 

Finally as a result of Obamacare passing through unconstitutional means, citizen activism calling itself the Tea Party Movement awoke from what was otherwise a fatalistic voter aversion to the stinking business of politics. They had a different curative plan than merely voting for the propped up party puppet, that the establishment dubbed as electable, they would actively participate in the primary process and even recruit their own constitutionally faithful candidates. 

They were attacked and malign by media, both parties and even government agencies (IRS Scandal) seeking to save the political status quo sham and shame of Washington elitism. The establishment was partially successful in as much as the Tea Party Movement name, (name only) has dissolved from a growing voter identifier into instead, a nameless but increasingly large and growing group of voters, salivating for a fix to our broken system. 

This citizen uprising gains momentum as each day more slime flows downhill from Washington revealing its utter disdain for the people's natural rights. Whether unconstitutional edicts from the President, congressional deceit or the Supreme Court's contortion of our constitution, America's exceptionalism is dissolving in front of voters eyes. Representative government appears dead, corporation money flows freely in the face of voters, and the struggling lives of the average citizen seems to be unimportant to our lawmakers.

More and more the policies of Washington have diminished the freedoms and protections once understood to be inherently off limits. The more government treads on rights it has no right to decide, the more America ceases to be the land of the free. Yet, the question becomes, are we still home of the brave?

Is it crazy, dumb, wacko or delusional to be a Trump voter? We are told he is a shill for Hillary. We are told he is a false conservative prophet. We are told he is a liar, a misogynists, a political Ross Perot pariah, a disguised progressive, an opportunists, a flip flopper and too dangerous a personality to be allowed control of our nuclear arsenal. Yet, people are not listening to the beltway badgering and the pundit's prognostication of a Trump nose dive in popularity. Why?

Could it be, that savvy voters realize that only a business tycoon of bravado can fight the tough battle to discredit Wall Street, corporations, bankers and whoring politicians and call them out, for their loyalty to money over the interests of the American people? Could it be that you need a bigger fish to kill a big fish, or an orca to kill a shark? Could it be that after seeing a community organizer be allowed to ravage the nation's good name and credit in open disdain of over half the citizenry, the thinking might be, what better antithesis of the last eight years of lunacy, then a "built that" billionaire. 

The elephant that is currently in the GOP room is that Trump is a killer whale, larger than any other candidate and making such a big media splash, he has the rest of the candidates swimming in circles as though they're a bait ball. Those that try and bite the oversized dolphin find themselves further adrift in a electorate current of turbulence against career politicians. 

So has the fed up American voter gone nuts, or has the system gone so haywire that a bully is needed to stop the bullies? Is Trump the apex predator jumping in the sea and squaring off against the political sharks on behalf of the average American? The voters have already seen those political sharks gang up and  bite him bit by bit hoping he would bleed and beached himself out of contention. Yet so far the shark attacks have bloodied the water with their own dying campaigns.

So although it is early in the primary season, Trump has breached the hostile waters, and rained down the salty foam that has scattered the career sharks. Still the GOP has not stopped thinking of ways to rid the primary of Trump, and the voters can expect a barrage of TV ads determined to use his past blowhole comments to discredit his name. Indeed the status quo GOP survival, depends on Trump's demise. The Captain Ahab struggle with "Moby- Donald" is the clash of the classes.

The Middle-class voters has longed for a powerful elixir, a justice toting Knight or a shrew advocate for their interests, and as unlikely as Trump might be to assume this role, he has. As strange as it might seem, sometimes it takes an unlikely person and an odd twist of fate to set a dysfunctional system back into rational harmony. Stranger still, is Trump leading the campaign or have the Trump supporters roped and saddled a Blackfish aware that our current system needs either savagery or salvation? 

If Trump is the progressive traitor that the GOP claims he is, then his policies will quicken the corrupt demise of Washington, if he stays true to his words then the salvage operation commences, either way, the average American will finally see change in Washington, by hook or crook.    

So, the voter's ship and crew, " Pequod" is rooting for the whale, Donald Trump. If he fails to win the nomination the voters are enjoying the fits of rage and sea sickness Trump is causing the (Ahab) GOP. But if Trump wins the primary, then what will the GOP do? Perhaps the establishment GOP should be asked, if they, will pledge their loyalty and faithfulness behind "The Donald"?