Published: Oct 24, 2016 We need to ask ourselves the following questions: How come more and more of our citizens express frustration and disillusionment today with the political institutions that govern the nation? How have we fallen so much into political and policy gridlock? How have both political parties moved either left or right of the nation’s political mainstream landscape? This angst was reflected in both parties primary elections where Donald J Trump has surprised the establishment, by ignoring convention and protocol on his way to securing the Republican presidential nomination, while a long-time socialist generated throngs of enthusiastic