More Words, Deeper Hole

I think the last time an actual revolution in the US was plausible was the 1930s, and it was as likely to be bloody and fascist as anything else. In 1988 it was a fantasy. The best one could possibly hope for was a post-Reagan rebirth of redistributive liberalism, and that didn't happen.

The 30-year trend of flat real median wages and increasing wealth concentration has to be unsustainable, and we could use some constitutional restructuring. But it might take the dying off of people who are still freaked out by the civil rights movement.