Extreme Right-Wingers Holding Economy Hostage

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The obstacles are everywhere. The political system and partisan divides do not bode well for big change or quick responses. One wonders if the very nature of our political system means we are fated to live with a less-perfect union every time there’s no consensus—the new normal—whether children’s lives are the cost or another issue takes hold.

Maybe, as the Mayan calendar makers apparently knew eons ago, we indeed are at the end of an era and the start of another one.