In the Twilight of Empire: America’s past performance is no guarantee of a future

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4. Great article. I'd like to quote from it:

To bring a different future within our grasp, we must first also abandon hope that our current political system will deliver it. We must face the reality—not just the easy “plague on both their houses” attitude that is so often an excuse for refusing the obligations of citizenship—that no established party (not the Democrats, not the Republicans) so dependent on money from the reactionary rich and the globalizing corporations will act to alter our economic trajectory.