Donald Trump being elected President, Brexit and the Columbian Peace plan, now if I added all walked into a bar… You would see the joke involved. However three major upsets, some claim defeats of the powers that be and I think all can be traced back to the same cause. Or rather group of causes. In the case of The Donald, people who voted for him were White males above the age of 30 without any education or only some, the hinterland for him, and the cities on the coast against him. The same can be said of Brexit, where the young voted to stay in the EEC, as did Scotland and the big cities like London. The older, rural folks voted to get out. The last of our troika is the peace plan. Again it failed by people who were not in the thick of the fighting. In this case, peace was mostly in the cities, whereas the war was fought in the rural farmlands. The young were also ignored. But there is one last thing to remember for each of these. The turnout was low, lower than expect and lower then needed. Without a clear and overwhelming turnout the voice of the people is drowned out by the voices of the motivated. Most people don’t want war. They don’t want an economic collapse and they certainly do not want ‘The Donald’. Yet they also don’t want to vote even more. In the age of wedge politics, where you only need s a small sliver of the pie, 25% who are motivated to vote, the rest will have to fall in line behind those small, vocal voters, whereas the rest of us have to pay that price for their voting behavior.