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ECONOMIC SUPERCLASS vs. POLITICAL SUPERCLASS…
The Donald Trump campaign for the GOP presidential nomination has transitioned from a much touted brief flash-in-the-pan scenario, to what can only be characterized as a phenomenal political juggernaut… The billionaire real estate mogul has the entire political establishment on their heels as he continues to defy political gravity and conventional presidential politics. It is a foregone conclusion that the Republican Party political standard as well as the social-conservative brand is mutable going forward. Moreover, election 2016 may in fact swing in the balance given the apparent juxtaposition between the economic super class and the political …show more content…

From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, African Americans and Hispanic were a growing constituency in Republican Party politics, in New York and the metropolitan areas as well as in target communities around the country. However, due to poor and inept black political leadership, couple with the political antipathy to civil rights successes that drove social-conservative (blue-dog) Democrats to infiltrated the GOP and transform the heretofore diverse, and progressive party …show more content…

It is axiomatic that the business of America is business, therefore, it should not be any surprise that billionaire real estate mogul Trump has the entire political establishment and the media (forth estate) on their heels and scrambling for ratings among themselves. None of the presidential hopefuls have mentioned the needs of the poor, nor have they issued any platform position that speaks to assisting the least of these… In the meantime, the haves are getting more, while the have-nots are getting less and less. The political powerful are getting more, while the politically powerless are getting less and less. There is an obvious leadership vacuum in America, and nature appropriately responds to vacuums…
The current circumstances animating the Republican Party makes it easy and convenient to highlight and bash the GOP, but the problem and challenges going forward is bi-partisan, therefore the Democratic Party will be a victim of presidential election 2016 as well. Some argue very persuasively that the Democratic and Republican Parties need a rebirth at minimum, while others assert that the parties need to be made brand new… The 2016 election in the United States as well as in the Virgin Islands will most likely be an interesting and intriguing

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