I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here…
The best way to fight the two-party monopoly
Envisioning a new movement that’s actually capable of repairing our broken economic and political structures
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/09/lind_two_party/index.html
In a way, the predictions the author is making is much like predicting tsunamis: the are inevitable and absolute in the long run, but actual timing is real tricky and decades can go by (indeed, centuries) without anything happening. At least the good thing is the author has a very plausible road map for our country’s return to sanity (or, at least, a dramatic reduction in insanity, which is a worthy goal for today), though how much longer life needs to suck before it starts getting better is very hard to predict.
I still feel that the likelihood of things getting much worse before they get better is much higher than things getting better…
