I want to repeat my fundamental diagnosis of our national problem which I wrote a couple of posts ago. My whole analysis of last night's election returns is premised on this diagnosis, and it is so easily misunderstood.
"My diagnosis of what ails America has little to do with Republicans and Democrats. Our basic problem is that we have an Establishment, encompassing both political parties, that is firmly committed to the status quo of imperial interventionism abroad and corporatism and favoratism toward the wealthy at home. The reign of Reagan--Bush Sr.--Clinton--Bush Jr.--Obama has differed very little actually in its foreign and domestic policies. Yes, that's right. The same national trajectory that we were on in 1981 has changed from little in 2010, except for superficialities and cosmetics."
"The only thing that will change our national trajectory--which has been a trajectory toward massive indebtedness everywhere, over-extended military intervention abroad, and economic and social decline and disintegration at home--is a game-changing, fundamentally different kind of politics and ideological direction."
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