WRM points to an optimistic............................

..............Howard Dean?   Full post here.  Excerpt here:

“I think there’s plenty of innovation still going on…The
entrepreneurial spirit in America is very much alive
especially among young people,” said Dean. “I know a ton
of kids who got a couple of jobs, lost them in succession,
then started their own Internet companies. And most of them
failed. And they make a little money for a while, they learn a
lot, and then they turn around and do something else. That’s
a very important process. The failure of this country is in the
political class, the financial class and the media,” said Dean,
“but there’s still enormous dynamism in America, and
I absolutely believe that dynamism is going to overcome
everything else.”