To Hell In A Handbasket Dept.

Is dissipation worse than cataclysm?
And what is a handbasket anyway?

Anyhoo, another "fight on" exhortation from some guy at The Nation whose wife works at the White House.
Got it.

What the country needs more than higher growth and lower unemployment, greater income equality, a new energy economy and drastically reduced carbon emissions is a redistribution of power, a society-wide epidemic of re-democratization. The crucial moments of American reform and progress have achieved this: from the direct election of senators to the National Labor Relations Act, from the breakup of the trusts to the end of Jim Crow.