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"Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought"

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Reprinted from www.dailykos.com, by bobswern

I've burned through quite a few hours this weekend--since Friday, in fact--writing a piece which, I've just realized, parallels much of what University of Texas/Austin Professor Emeritus Walter Dean Burnham and UMass/Boston Political Science Professor and Senior Roosevelt Institute Fellow Thomas Ferguson published this past Wednesday, over at Alternet.org: "Americans Are Sick to Death of Both Parties: Why Our Politics Is in Worse Shape Than We Thought."

Their article is now, easily, at or near the top of my personal list of the most important pieces about our country's politics (and socioeconomics) that I've read all year. I'd say it's second in import only to French economist Thomas Piketty's bestseller, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," which is almost as lengthy as "War and Peace" (Ferguson's and Burnham's article is a mere 2,500+/- words).

Kossack Phoebe Loosinhouse covered a part of this story in her great post, currently on the Rec List, "The Dems Check Engine Light Just Came On," as you read this. But, when you revisit it with Burnham's and Ferguson's analytical overview--the additional stats they provide in their narrative give readers much deeper and far more stunning historical context, to say the least--they powerfully explain that what happened in this year's mid-term election was not just about Democrats: "It likely heralds a new stage in the disintegration of the American political order."

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