U.S. Politics: Birth Pangs Of An Inner Revolution

While the dust is still settling from a photo-finish, Hillary Clinton's victory smile sets the tone for what may be a long race. While Bernie Sanders is calling for a revolution, Clinton is leading one.

In entrepreneurial America, Clinton has chosen an evolutionary model for her campaign. It's a "Let's expand on Obama's legacy. Let's grow the affordable healthcare programs. Let's take what's working and make it even better." This is a solutions driven model that focuses on growth and expansion. It leads to ever-expanding complexity, networking and collaboration, leaving no room for disorder.

By contrast, Sanders's call for a revolution echoes within the walls of a closed system where entropy is the end game. In a closed system, order begins to break down, leading to greater disorder, greater social unrest, until the system is torn down and, over time, replaced with another closed system.

This is also what we are seeing happen within the GOP. The Republican's Grand Old Party is no longer growing, it is breaking apart, falling apart, breaking down. The uproar is like cats in a room full of rocking chairs. It's full of sound and fury, with a lot of fur flying. In time, the chairs will stop rocking, the cats will calm down.

And what about the women in the room? The Hillary bashers? The Hillary haters? The women who throw words - like men at a modern day stoning - at the woman who could be the very first woman to serve as president of the United States.

Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once reminded: "There is a special place in Hell for women who don't help other women." In 2016, I would put it this way:

The pain the word bashers seek to inflict on Clinton may actually be coming from inside themselves. They may see in her something that has long been suppressed inside themselves.

In other words, they may be giving birth to their own power, and the angst they may be feeling may be the birth pangs of an inner revolution.

Clinton, herself, is experiencing this. Like most women, she is more comfortable talking with people in small groups, listening deeply, engaging with them. Now, gaining more confidence in the public arena, HRC is learning to talk to ever larger audiences.

As her victory speech in Iowa showed, Clinton is a fast learner.

Alexia Parks, an American futurist , is a Virtual Mentor with the United Nations and Founder of the Alexia Parks 10 TRAITS Leadership Institute. Wikipedia