Bernie Sanders called for a revolution, then his calls began to fade out somewhere around his endorsement of Clinton- or perhaps it was just starting to fall on deaf ears; Trumps call for a revolution may not be for the same reasons or addressed to the same people- but they’ve added fuel to the same fire.

Bernie’s and Trump’s supporters have very little in common, but the little that they do is pretty big. Both sides of the aisle(seemingly FAR sides) are sick and tired of the standard political tropes that describe the typical politician: answers that don’t answer anything and invisible leashes that lead back to even more invisible donors.

His supporters railed behind a cry that said the standard politics as usual doesn’t represent them, and his unpolished speech and demeanor made him seem a man of the people- far outside the establishment….now which candidate am I referring to?

Both candidates policies resonate and represent VERY different sides of the country, and the argument isn’t for me to make whether one or both are wrong- what matters is the core of both campaigns(whether sincere or not) is that the system has failed half this country and when half the country isn’t being represented, is a call for revolution so surprising?

Trump continues to say he won’t support the results of the election if they are against him, this message riles up his supporters and his belief that the system is rigged- and it is, but not in the way he’s suggesting. Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent, but ELECTION fraud isn’t- look no further than the DNCs treatment of Bernie to see that.

Half the country look to Sanders and to Trump and they see people standing up to the system and then they see a consolidated effort to tear them down. How can half the country trust the media or their representatives when, right or wrong, they have spent the last year seeing them do their damndest to keep the powerful in power no matter how misleading or wrong they might be?

At the end of the day I don’t see the progressive left who felt the bern and the far right who only wanted to make America great again EVER work together or EVER have much in common besides wanting to change the system to favor the people, but revolutions have been based on less.