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.