> Massive, terminal discrediting of the one-party state;
Trust in political institutions is up, not down. And there's been no increase in voter preference for third parties.
> bankruptcy of money-politics;
You mean there's no longer money in politics?
> a harsh spotlight on the idiocies of the Supreme Court,
> our mouldering Constitution, and the 200-year-old slavelords who continue
> to hold sway over this country from beyond the crypt;
Which has so far produced zero change in the Constitutional system.
> and finally, the
> immolation of the petro-Taliban, a.k.a. the fall of Enronistan.
So Enron wouldn't have collapsed in Gore were in office?
Seth