How we got here
Wow. What a mess. Credit lines are frozen so small business will be screwed in the coming weeks. Just in time for the holidays! Is it that we all are grasshoppers vs. ants?
Here's what's happening astrologically. Mercury rx, plus deepening Saturn/Uranus opposition (exact in late October and early November), Mars/Neptune trine.
You may recall in 2000, when Bush ran on a platform of The Sky is/will be falling and Gore ran on a "let's continue as we have begun" and Florida recount gave Bush 567 more votes and America the biggest reaming of my lifetime (at least since the Reagan era, which by comparison looks innocent and thrifty).
The answer is: the nation goes into a nervous breakdown mode whenever the change of power is INEVITABLE. It wasn't as hinky in 2004 since we had a sitting president. Ditto 1996, the year of the Newt Gingrich (remember him?) would-be takeover.