The Massachusetts Senate Election and Thomas Jefferson

What do we know at the blocking and tackling level in regards to the Scott Brown victoryFirst the political quotpunditsquot amp8211 and that word is always best in quotes amp8211 are back What did they have to say about Tiger Woods except to speak of a fallen idol What could they say about Haiti except to express what an unspeakably horrible tragedy it is Ah but now there is blood in the water Political drama of the highest order It is so predictable what is going to be said on Fox News on MSNBC and even on CNN in the days weeks and unfortunately months ahead Raised voices Pompous posturing and prognostications about the status of health care the Democratic majority and the Obama Presidency How will the Republicans relate to the Tea Party folksIt is clear that Brown ran a pitchperfect campaign Timing image message and packaging were all right on target Martha Coakley ran perhaps the most lackluster campaign in recent memory What killed her is that her campaign and her demeanor reeked of entitlement This was a Democratic seat in a Democratic state and hey she won the Democratic primary Why do I have to shake hands with votersThis is why the electorate is in revolt We voted for change in 2006 change in 2008 and change in 2010 It isn39t that citizens are voting against health care though I am sure many did It is not that citizens were voting against the Democratic Congress though I am sure some thought they were What the voters were voting against was this stink of entitlement from a professional careerist political class Every election from now on will be about this to some degree They got us into two wars two recessions historic collapse of housing values record unemployment and have added 20 trillion dollars of debt and unsecured liabilities and that is just in the last nine yearsAs I39ve spoken to audiences in the last four months about the trends changes and transformation that is about to occur in the coming ten years there has been an emerging consistent point of view and question It goes something like this we understand that this is coming but will the politicians ever get it In Canada they speak about the insular dull bureaucrats in Ottawa In the US it is about the lifelong politicians beholden to special interests for self perpetuation If your party is in power you get a job If your party is out of power you become a lobbyist until the revolving door brings you back into the corridors of power For two years I have been saying that increasingly the phrase quotnational leadersquot is oxymoronic It is the people that seem to lead the politiciansWhen the founding fathers crafted those exquisite documents and initiated the greatest experiment of democracy in history they never ever envisioned an entrenched political class whose sole interest was perpetuation of their power and their party39s power Thomas Jefferson was a farmer He became a great statesman a magnificent president and left a towering legacy of compassionate love of country Then he went back to being a farmer The founding fathers imagined a citizens39 democracy where service was given and then private life was resumed That was the assumed practice Where were political parties mentioned in those documents we revereIn my current Trend Report and in QampampA with audiences I suggest that by 2016 there could well be a new third party in ascendancy winning across the map Both the Democratic and Republican parties feel so 20th century burdened by legacies no longer pertinent to the 21st century and the Shift AgeThe historians of 2020 or 2030 may well point to this period as a new beginning when Democrats and Republicans were marginalized giving way to a party tuned to the realities of this new century this new age this new decade We shall seeDavid Houle is a futurist strategist and speaker He has always been slightly ahead the curve Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment David can be contacted at DavidDavidHoulecomRead all Davidamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at David Houle MediaBizBloggersFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBlogger

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