While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns

We Live In A Media World Simultaneously Obsessed With Technology And Personality.

Liberals Do Not Appear To Address Potential Solutions With Anything Like The Far Right's Aura Of God-given Self-confidence.

Much Of What Tea Party Candidates Claimed About The World And The Global Economy During The 2010 Elections Would Have Earned Their Adherents A Well-deserved F In Any Freshman Economics (or Earth Science) Class.

Trends In Circulation And Advertising - The Rise Of The Internet, Which Has Made The Daily Newspaper Look Slow And Unresponsive; The Advent Of Craigslist, Which Is Wiping Out Classified Advertising-have Created A Palpable Sense Of Doom.

While History Never Repeats Itself, Political Patterns Do.