Besides being a time to celebrate Labor, in this country, before the unions were co-opted by the socialists of the world, Labor Day marks the traditional or official beginning of the campaign season.
If you were thinking that the 2016 season got here a little early, you were correct. Hillary announced on April 12, but had to make a more "official" announcement in June, when her campaign realized that she was not getting the "bump" in polling results, she had expected. GOP contestants were announcing as early as February.
Thought this was season came early? As I have said, "Turns out you are right . . . we are talking 5-6 months early."
The early launch to this campaign season is indicative of the unrest of the electorate. Folks are tired of the lies and the phoniness of the D.C. crowd, perhaps as frustrated as in the days of Reagan/Carter, and the Reagan election was a landslide.
While this unrest has been the case in the previous 5 elections cycles, the Establishment leadership has been able to take back control of election strategies. There is a "fear" within the Establishment, that this may not be the case in the coming campaign.
In the Democrat Party, Progressive/Socialist know that now is the time to drill down on the changes they have brought to that party. Hillary is seen as a barrier to this sea-change, when, in fact, she is doing all she can to "prove" she as far Left as Bernie and Elizabeth.
Within the GOP, no one in the primary process is campaigning on Big Government Establishment trends. Only Jeb Bush is seen as part of that Establishment. In fact, he has made it clear that he has no intentions of reducing the number of federal agencies, although his conservative leanings are far more the fact than his Democrat/socialist opponents. Trump, of course, is as radical an alternative to Bush, as Sanders is the radical choice to Hillary.
When the primary season moves into the several Southern states, we will find out just how pervasive is this trend away from Establishment politics.