DONALD TRUMP IS A BAG PHONE. CELEBRATE!

As a little “L” libertarian I reluctantly voted for Gary Johnson this year.

I’ll pause so some can laugh or cry at my wasted vote. 

Publicly, I will say that a well-informed abstention has more civic value than an uninformed vote.  As a political consultant, I sometimes know more about this stuff than I want to.  Hence, my inability to support either major party candidate.

Privately, my Libertarian vote means that I can complain about Donald OR Hillary for 4 years and keep moral high ground. Win-win baby… it’s not like I live in a swing state.

This was a historic election for a variety of reasons.

However, I think the most IMPORTANT fact is being overlooked: WE THE PEOPLE just elected someone to our highest office who HAS NEVER WORKED IN GOVERNMENT IN HIS LIFE.

No elected positions. No military service. No nothing.  That's been thought impossible for most of our American history.

Do I think Trump will be a great president? Not really. I think he could be a disast-uh. (Although, I sincerely hope he is amay-zing.)

However, I do believe he can be a DISRUPTOR (or disrupt-uh) in a system that has lost all accountability to those who fund its existence.  What does that mean?

Well, we just saw a MASSIVE devaluation in the “favor” market that runs Washington, DC.  The old guard (and wannabe old guard) have a well-entrenched currency system of “favors” that crosses party lines and keeps order. November 8 was Black Tuesday for that market.

Donald Trump has not spent decades racking up debt. He hasn't “paid his dues” to slowly inch upwards towards the ultimate prize of the presidency. Thus, that “politi-cash” monetary system has no value to him. 

That makes things interesting (and a little hopeful) to me.

I think of President-Elect Trump as a bag phone from the 1980’s. They were heavy, and clunky, and expensive, and rarely worked unless you got just the right angle…. BUT, you could go down the street and call people to say “GUESS WHERE I’M CALLING YOU FROM!”

For all its faults, the bag phone was a DISRUPTOR to the system.  Amazingly, we could now take our phone numbers with us. This led to flip phones and smart phones and beyond.  We didn’t start mobile communication with the iPhone, we progressed to get there.

As a true Washington DC outsider, Trump may be our bag phone.  Hopefully, years from now, we will be able to point to this as the moment when Americans asked “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?”