Our real choice, however, is not between blue or pre-blue. We can’t get back to the 1890s or 1920s any more than we can go back to the 1950s and 1960s. We may not yet be able to imagine what a post-blue future looks like, but that is what we will have to build. Until we remove the scales from our eyes and launch our discourse toward the future, our politics will remain sterile, and our economy will fail to provide the growth and higher living standards Americans continue to seek. That neither we nor the world can afford.

Walter Russell Mead, writing in The American Interest, has one one of the most clear-eyed and honest assessments of the political crossroads America finds itself at present.  The problem rises above party politics or even political philosophies; the world we have built our institutions for simply no longer exists, and we must adventurously rethink our society and it’s structures.  

Seriously, everyone should read this.