Dissatisfied Mind: Flickers of Hope in a Deadly Political Cycle
(UPDATED BELOW) I found myself unexpectedly heartened by American election returns, at least in one respect. For they have shown, once again, that the American people feel an abiding, angry – if deeply inchoate – dissatisfaction with the nation’s unjust, corrupt and dysfunctional political system. They know that something is profoundly wrong with the system, and so they keep voting one faction out and putting the other faction in, hoping to see some kind of change. History gives this proof: in almost every national election for the past two decades, we have seen a change in control of either one