2016: Our watershed election in 21st century

With national problems coming to a head, with government officials and politicians more brazen in looting the national treasury, and with Pope Francis discreetly making suggestions from the sidelines, the national election in 2016 is shaping into what historians and political observers call a “watershed election” for our people and our republic.

The term “watershed” is normally used by political scientists and historians to describe a national balloting that marks the end of one period and the beginning of another.