I strongly suspect that we’re going to be hearing a lot about political realignment in the coming days and I further suspect that most of what we’ll hear will be claptrap.
From now on realignment is likely to be an ongoing process. The political parties are now fully obsolete, a sort of Weekend at Bernie’s proposition, being propped up because our political institutions support them, and something approximating a network model is taking hold. Think social media rather than smoke-filled rooms.
It would be nice, but it remains to be seen if the early vibe becomes accepted opinion.
I found this speech by Bill Moyers very interesting (especially in light of the election). http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-money-fights-hard-and-it-fights-dirty64766
It does seem that the 4% that have 90% of the wealth in the US are running things the way they want to. Long live Plutocracy!
I’d call it an important at bat. Not a realignment.
What realignment? I think that this realignment, and the forces that underlie it, will only gain strength in the coming decades: