ok, I'm a major optimist and thank you for writing this because I, like you don't think many people know what's actually going on. But, I have to disagree with you on this sentence above in that liberals, specifically the Clintons and their inflitrating everything and then dole out drips and drabs of prosperity through "philanthorpy" are also a huge problem. Read, Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas, if you haven't already. My2sense