No matter who wins this election, it will be close, and this is still going to be an evenly and bitterly divided nation. In retrospect, I think I was expecting too much of politics.
The two parties and their associated political committees have spent billions this year, and nothing has altered the race. The polls are just where they were at the start.
It’s clearer to me now that most of the time politicians are not master navigators leading us toward a new future. They are more like surfers who ride the waves created by people further down in the core society.
America faced a core civilizational challenge: How do we harness the energy of industrialization to build a humane society?
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