"We are at the peak of our careers, beneficiaries of the post-war boom." I concur.

The election of Barack Obama, so-called Candidate for Change, and his subsequent staffing of key positions with veteran clintonistas, proves that both major parties are struggling without success to define themselves in the new order, and that actual political attitudes in this country are perhaps realigning in terms of of a Washington Globalist Party and an American Nationalist Party.

The Washington Party is the natural home of liberal Democrats. It is the party of the United Nations and the Federal Reserve, of NAFTA, political correctness, bailouts, Hollywood, high taxes, and excessive regulations. All this is unpopular with a large fraction of mainstream Americans and should rightfully be tied to longstanding Democratic policies.

In opposition to this could be a party built along nationalistic lines as a coalition of Monroevian foreign policy conservatives, fiscal conservatives, traditional religious peoples, blue-collar workers, and moderate greens. Electoral success might be a high probability for such a coalition, as it would weaken Democratic support amongst lobor unions and immigrants.

Of course this kind of analysis leaves out exogenous influences from other more ordered, forceful agendas, and from any number oif sheer physical events.