Voters Are Angry, Voters Are Fed Up, Voters Are Blah Blah Blah

[DonViejo]

—By Kevin Drum | Wed Aug. 12, 2015 11:29 PM EDT

Oh please:

The surging candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are fueled by people’s anger with the status quo and desire for authenticity in political leaders.

We hear this every four years. Voters are always angry. They always prize straight talk. They are endlessly entranced by outsiders. And it's always a surprising new phenomenon.

Can we just stop it? This isn't new. It's an evergreen. But political reporters always believe it, and every four years at least a few of them take a tour of "real" America and find exactly what they set out to find. People are fed up! And yet, every four years a fairly ordinary mainstream politician is eventually sent to the White House anyway. Go figure.

POSTSCRIPT: Someone with access to Nexis should do a stroll through the archives. I'll bet you can easily find at least one example of this in a major newspaper during the early stages of every election cycle for at least the past 40 years.

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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/08/voters-are-angry-voters-are-fed-voters-are-blah-blah-blah

[Thinkingabout]

1. I want to vote for a candidate with accomplishments other tban occupying a seat.

[Agschmid]

4. All our potential candidates have accomplishments...

Don't be a hater.

[arcane1]

2. Your postscript would be a great job for Jon Stewart

[PoliticAverse]

3. Heck even Newt Gingrich tried running as a "Washington outsider". n/t

[NanceGreggs]

5. Well, there ARE people here ...

... who claim to know what's on the minds of "the People" at all times.

The People are angry. The People are upset. The People have had it with the status quo. The People are clamouring for a different type of governance. The People will stay home if the GE comes down to Clinton v Bush. The People are ready for revolution. The People are disgusted with the TPP.

I always wonder how some posters here manage to know exactly what The People want, need, or are pissed-off about on a minute-to-minute basis.

I guess they spend a lot of time on the phone, calling everyone in the country to ask them for their input - which makes me wonder how they still have time to post on DU 24/7.