Post-election analysis

I‘ve spent the last two mornings reading everything the pundits have to say about the 2014 midterm elections. Depending on the writer, America is now truly screwed, or it’s now on the way to salvation.

After sober reflection on elections past, I think the more things change, the more they stay the same. Cartoonist Robert Crumb summed it up nicely 50 years ago:

As true today as it ever was.