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The secret weapon of the Republicans is George Soros and the elite Democratic leadership.  Possessing power jealously, they simply will not allow any others to ascend to leadership.  They demand any pretenders to power be rather far to the left.   In proof, a large number of the cabal of power-Democrats come from three states: New York, Massachusetts, and California.   You can bet many Democrats feel like they are also forgotten.  This continues with left-like movements such as the current protests against the Trump win, but also in the Occupy Wall Street push.  No leaders seem to be emerging.  These elites still control everything, no matter how much soul-searching or analysis seems to be forthcoming.   If anything, this election showed that internally controlled progressive agendas may not work.  They have spent their power capital.  Exhausted for now, they must appeal to moderates within.  Can they do it?  Probably not. Power is so very hard to give up.    Republi

What we see in the current political races, both Democratic and Republican, is a race to the extreme.  The Democrats are not only drifting left but racing that away.   There is no limit to social programs they propose; cost seems not to be an option. The Republicans are constantly invoking the Reagan litmus test of conservatism.   Realism is lost.  The Republican candidates, such as Cruz, argue against the non-conservative purity of Trump.  They view this as key.  Each of them scrap against the over who is the most pure.  Ronald Reagan has achieved political sainthood.   Programs are irreverent; purity is. For the Democrats, both contenders are vying to inherit the Obama legacy, and both are traveling even further than Obama even dared toward the progressive agenda.  Both are trying to capture their base.  For the one, the rich are an infinitely taxable asset.  For the other, the rich comprise an achievement goal.  Both are dead wrong. The news outlets love this.  It gives extreme