OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE

 It's usually something totally unexpected, in popular terms often described "as out of the blue."

However small or seemingly unexpected and insignificant, it frequently has bone rattling consequences. Those bone rattling consequences often spell changes. Sometimes big, well needed changes. The Panama Papers, what now appears to be a botched Internet hacking job, could be the latest version.

The widespread evidence of corruption and, to use a play on the words one of this year's presidential hopefuls, gaming the system, could be the blow that chops down the cherry tree no one can no longer deny is rotten to its roots.

One sure sign of this truth is the trouble the entrenched are waging to stop a couple of what can be  described only as real outliers, Sanders and Trump, underdogs. It's almost enough to make one wish the two would form their own ticket and fire a significant shot of real change to be heard around the globe.

It's over. Two senseless, meaningless, corrupt political parties are done. Finis. Let the sluggards, the elitists and the money-lenders know: That was then, but this is now. Such a union might sound weird at first, but could hardly be worse than what we've had. At least early on they might be too much in the spotlight to attempt anything shady.

It takes a while to build arrogance, conceit and contempt. And with these two parties we're way past the ninth inning. These two candidates, like them or otherwise, appear to be what the population wants, as different as they seem. That's why we hold shameful gatherings every four years called elections, isn't it? But these two parties care less what the population wants. What they care about is self-propagation and control.

What we have here is what one writer called "the mythology of democracy." You can vote all right and you can saunter out of your local polling place wearing the little paper tag that you have, but that's as far as it goes. Those trying feverishly to derail Sanders and Trump are proof positive just how little importance your vote carries with them.

And the longer you play this charade the sooner you will forfeit any remaining vestige of hope for freedom and liberty you may have. We recently wrote about Goldman Sachs and their almost hysteria about Brexit. Most of us know who David Cameron is. If you don't, he is part of the Western mythology of democracy.