E.L. Doctorow editorial - great summary of right wing strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/unexceptionalism-a-primer.html# When I read this editorial it struck me as one of the best and succinct summaries that I have read. It really drives home the significant flaws in the democracy that we have established and the underlying cultural distortions that have created the stage for our self destruction.

The republican brain

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8591-the-republican-brain-on-the-republican-brain

There is research on genetics of political choice

http://nymag.com/news/features/liberals-conservatives-2012-4/

Discover the economic realities

http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/