The real election surprise? The uprising of the American people

Patrick Caddell: The real election surprise? The uprising of the American people​

By Patrick Caddell
November 07, 2016


For more than two years the American people, in a great majority, from left to right, have been in revolt against the political class and the financial elites in America. It is a revolt with historic parallels, most closely resembling the Jacksonian revolution of the 1820s. It is an uprising. It is a peaceful uprising of a people who see a country in decline and see nothing but failure in the performance of their leadership institutions. And they have signaled their intent to take back their country and to reclaim their sovereignty.

Unfortunately, the analysts, the pollsters and most importantly the commentariat of the political class have never understood, and in fact are psychologically incapable of understanding what is happening. And for the entire cycle of this presidential campaign they have failed to grasp what was happening before their eyes – for it runs counter to everything they believe about themselves.

In truth, they are suffering from cognitive dissonance believing in their righteous superiority and are not capable of realizing that it is they who have become the adversary of the American people. And therefore they have been wrong, in this entire election cycle, every step of the way.

For them, American politics only began yesterday. They know little history and have no appreciation of the collective consciousness of the American people. Whether it is the campaign of Bernie Sanders, who came within a hair’s breadth of knocking out the coronated nominee of the Democratic establishment or on the other side, the emergence of the total outsider Donald Trump, the most improbable candidate of all. In truth, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, sucked from the same trough even if it was from opposite ends. But the critical point that is missed, by almost everyone, was that neither Sanders nor Trump created this uprising. They were chosen vehicles – they did not create these movements, these movements created them.

In less than a day we will know how far this revolt has come. But, make no mistake, whatever the outcome, this revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.​

In less than a day we will know how far this revolt has come. But, make no mistake, whatever the outcome, this revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.

Several years ago, I began, with my colleagues at Armada, an ongoing, in-depth research project on what has become known as the “Candidate Smith” project. A good friend of mine, Lee Hanley, who sadly just passed away, volunteered to begin this project with only one charge: that we explore my hypothesis that something profound was happening in the collective consciousness of the American people.

What we learned in our in-depth research was as astonishing as it was unexpected. It became clear from this really deep public opinion inquiry that American politics has entered an historic paradigm. What is emerging in what had been assumed to be the static political system was about to be reconfigured in ways and that we still do not know fully. But one thing is certain: the old rules of politics are collapsing and a new edifice is emerging.

The conventional wisdom that America is absolutely divided into warring tribes is a tired falsehood. Overall, in the attitude structure of the American people, the elements of this new paradigm are commonly shared by upwards of 80 percent of the population – from the Occupy Wall Street movement on the left to the Tea Parties on the right. The political battleground is no longer over ideology but instead is all about insurgency.

The larger atmosphere is dominated by three overriding beliefs:

First, the American people believe that the country is not only on the wrong track but almost 70 percent say that America is in actual decline. The concept of decline is antithetical to the American experience.

Second, for more than three centuries, the animating moral obligation of America has been the self-imposed obligation that each generation passes on to its children a better America than they themselves inherited. This is what makes us Americans. In Armada’s polling we found that a majority of Americans believe that they are better off than their parents were. But a great majority says that THEIR children will be worse off than they themselves are today. This is the crisis of the American Dream. And it is no surprise that a majority of Americans agree that if we leave the next generation “worse off” that there will still be a place called “the United States” but there will no longer be an “America.”

Third, when asked whether or not everyone in America plays by the same rules to get ahead or are there different rules for well-connected and people with money, a staggering 84 percent of voters picked the latter. Only 10 percent believed that everyone has an equal opportunity.​

These over-arching attitudes provide the framework for today’s political revolt.

(Excerpt)

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016...ection-surprise-uprising-american-people.html


IMO, Pat Caddell has hit the nail squarely. This will be a real election surprise.
I know more union democrats voting for Trump than voting for Hillary. That's a first and I've been voting since 1957. Democrats have made too many promises they have not kept. Obama put the cherry on the sundae when he made promises about Obamacare that were lies and Pelosi told use they had to pass it before we could see what was in it.
Obama the 'Community Organizer' says Trump is not equipped to be President........ this coming from an C.O. who has not accomplished anything in the past 8 years, but lie to the American people and created an inferno in the Middle East, doubled the national Debt, and reduced our economy to banana republic status.

 

I'm hoping the scales will fall from a few more eyes before they vote. It is incredible to me that our talking heads and the people they front for cannot see the obvious.

 

I agree with the article in the OP. Sadly its followed by the standard partisan malarkey which represents precisely what will likely prove the greatest obstacle for any meaningful, sustained populist uprising.

 

Where's the uprising at? I see nothing about this election being any kind of uprising at all. People are voting for the R or the D just like they always have.

Do folks actually think voting for financial mogul Donald Trump is somehow "rising up" against the system? Donald Trump?

Are you kidding me?

There has to something that anchors all these wacko narratives to the ground. The only thing missing from this article was somebody calling Donald Trump the "anti-establishment" candidate. That ones always good for a depressing laugh, followed of course by the revolting realization that the people who say it might actually believe it.

 

Caddell is an idiot and Trump is a CERTAIN LOSER.

There won't be any sort of "uprising".

"Uprising"?

 

Trump will almost certainly lose the election.

Unfortunately that is only going to fuel the 'uprising', thus far only glimpsed. And it won't be Trump you need to worry about, it'll be whoever steps in to his vacated seat.

 

good yah wont see it coming perfect sneak attack like pearl harbor art of war.

 

So people "uprising" against Democracy to save Democracy---is that about right?----STELLAR
Well, hope we see a peaceful "uprising" then-or all those doing the violent uprising will be seeing the inside of a jail cell-----STELLAR

 

rigged elections and mass zombies being led by the media and dnc to the voteing booth is enough for me to start a upyourarising

 

Okay, you might not be aware of this but Donald Trump is not a politician. He's not part of the beltway insider elite, but rather one of those guys that used to have to bribe them to get zoning permits.

People tried before with Ron Paul, who despite being a politician, wasn't part of the system. This time it's Donald Trump. If Trump loses, there won't be any more attempts to break the system from within.

 

just call it a little bird cage spring cleaning thats needed to done every once every 100 years or so 1860-64

 

Well, the only uprising I'm going to see is the uprising of the wine glass to my lips tomorrow night when HILLARY wins the 2016 Presidential election!!! Cheers----

 

yeah go ahead and cherish your win , it wont last long you will have to fly the coupe as your cage gets rattle after the election

 

With respect, this is very naïve.

The once liberal and dynamic left can as easily become the establishment as any other body, and the once staid and conformist right can as easily become the counter to that. To fail to grasp that is more "whacko" than to see that it's possible.

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Another babe in the woods.

Let me help. Any 'uprising' won't be against democracy, it will be against illiberal totalitarians calling themselves Democrats.

 

I'm actually afraid for America, for this reason. It may well turn out that it would have been 'safer' to let Trump win and then fade into ignobility, than to irritate an as yet uninfected wound by ensuring he loses to one of the worst presidential candidates in American history.

 

That's an excellent point. Personally I expect Trump to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college vote to Hillary. But I then expect the Right to get . . . ANGRY; and not just angry at the Left but angry at all the RINOs that helped cripple Trump's efforts. The chances are very good that they will get punished. But no matter what, the anger will remain and somebody WILL step into the leadership gap if Trump is forced off the stage.

That could be very bad for this nation. The Left thinks that all of this stuff is a game, but it isn't a game, and if the Right finally goes ballistic on this nation then they will begin to understand that in a way that nobody can envy.

 

We've seen the reality of the situation which is Trump rallies that attract 30,000 people, while Hillary gets maybe 300. You can point to polls that say hillary is leading, but you can't really see that.

If hillary wins... I don't know. I really don't know.

There has been far too much going on to predict what will happen at the election, or what will happen afterwards.

 

You are living in a precious snowflake safe space dreamworld if you think that the Left is going to be able to just sit back and point a finger and giggle if the Right eventually goes ballistic on this nation. Leftists should bother to start reading history pages rather than do with them what they usually do . . . wad them up and use them for toilet paper.

 

a military Coup d'état take over then put trump in office after Hillary wins would be less bloody, yah know less street fighting and civilian collateral damage

 

Well said.

 

Sometimes you just have to act without believing.

 

Hey dummies there is no uprising it's more like a hissy fit of adult babies. You guys with grandiose dreams of fighting and winning against Uncle Sam with your Wal-Mart AR15s are the laughing stock of the free world.

 

Democracy? What Democracy? Our forefathers created America as a Republic not a Democracy, Democrats want to make us in the image of the People's Republic China, Cuba, North Korea, or any Marxist state they would claim is better. Anita Dunne let the cat out of the bag when she claimed she refers to Mao's Little Red book for inspiration. As Mr. Caddell stated, "In less than a day we will know how far this revolt has come".

 

I most certainly will cherish it very much & I'm not in a cage-Thanks---