--The old-school, failing mainstream media cling to the economic and political models they grew up with, leaving them no real allys but the right- their natural partners, (parents?)anyway:

--The scripted and funded noise machines like the tea baggers, together with the above media continue to succeed in making it appear as if progressive politics in general are discredited policy, in the public eye.

Then what? This scenario does not spell success for the GOP, I don't think- the people who coalesced behind their imagined Obama still want real change, and they are in the majority, I think.

Media vs. Reality?

Think of those flags that keep reappearing at the rallys- the ones that push for a national partition along ideological lines--secession.
Then there's Texas. Poor Texas.
A giant nation so polarized, so lost in a morass of pandering, manipulative bullshit it still swamps the University of Chicago with entry applications.

Smells like civil war, almost. Or is that just Darwin  burning?  

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.