I am inclined to agree with this author’s assessment of the present state of the American political system. Within the context of the existing US state system, it is probably a good thing that the political class is fragmented into a polarized partisan divide. It is probably good that the two parties rotate the presidency roughly every 8 years, that control over Congress vacillates, that the Supreme Court is split down the middle, that Republicans control a majority of the states while Democrats control the large cities. Within the context of the liberal-democratic-state-capitalist plutocratic oligarchy More…