Thank you for a very excellent analysis. I agree. We have to get past the idea that unless blame is placed on both sides the analysis must be biased.

My good friend my doctor likes to say that power is every human being’s drug of choice. In politics, winning, as a demonstration of power, can easily become an end in itself.

That is especially true at a time when the realization is dawning that no person or party has a solution for a single one of the problems that beset contemporary society. Curiously, it is as though because the ship is sinking that control of the ship, as an end in itself, becomes all there is to seek. Demoralized people are de-moralized people.

Yet, a way does exist to eliminate unemployment, poverty, taxation and public debt, while increasing sustainability, at no cost to anyone, without having to redistribute anything, without limiting income or property/wealth, with no changes in economic behavior required: www.ajustsoluton.com (if the link fails to work the address can be typed) and, here on Medium, “A Cure for the Ills of Capitalism” and “People for Tolerance, Unite!”