OK, so like many (a majority?) Americans, neither of the candidates of the two major political parties were ones I had any interest in as the process worked it's way through the primaries and the conventions.  As a matter of fact, each of them would be near the bottom of candidates I would have any interest in.  (More on that a little later....)  It seems many Americans have similar feelings.  This has led to some interesting and amusing comments regarding the election and the candidates.  I heard one radio program describe the upcoming presidential election as "The Great Dumpster Fire Election of 2016."  Another comment I heard was the analogy of the (apparent) binary choice between the two main political party candidates as being similar to choosing whether to put the baby in the blender or the microwave.  A gruesome, vulgar comparison, but given the choices we have available....  Anyway, to me it seems like most people who are deciding to vote for one of the candidates of the two big political parties are not necessarily voting for a candidate because they support the candidate or agree with the candidate's ideals and principals, but are choosing because they think the candidate of the other party would be a bigger disaster.  That's a very discouraging way of looking at choosing a president and not the way I intend to make my decision, but everyone is free to make their own choice how they wish. 

I mentioned earlier how I thought Clinton and Trump were two of the poorest candidates I could think of as leader of the US.  What if that is exactly what was going on?  What if it was kind of a reverse pissing match between the dems and the repubs to see who could get the worst candidate to be their party's nominee for president?  As odd and improbable as that sounds, I can think of a scenario where that might actually be the case.  Depending on what type of radio and tv programs you listen to or view or which websites you visit, some analysts (or peanut galleries) are suggesting that there may be a big economic downturn in the near future.  Granted, some of these are the same ones that tell you to hoard gold, silver, stock up on emergency food and ammunition, etc.  But, when they bring up how interconnected the various countries' economies are, it seems like at least a possibility that given the right, or wrong, situation the stock market could take a big dive, interest rates could start climbing, more unemployment, home foreclosures, etc.  I've also heard that there is talk of the treasury stopping printing of any bills over $20, and a transition to electronic currency (think government bitcoin).  There's also rumblings about negative interest rates (similar to other countries).  Depending on which of some of these events come to pass, it could be a real rough time for whoever wins the presidency to try to navigate through some of these situations.  I wonder if the political parties might actually have considered some of this when it came to officially naming their candidate at the conventions.  Maybe the thought was 'hey if we put our worst candidate out there maybe the other party's candidate will be elected when the s**t hits the fan.'  Or they were thinking 'at least our best politician won't be running things when everything goes to heck.'

I'm not in favor of it, and I'm not wishing for it, but if some of these things actually happen I could definitely see another US revolution taking place.  Only time will tell what events play out and what happens - maybe it ends up just being a revolution or reset of the political parties that are in power rather than an actual revolution of the type of government and country we have in the US.