[guhwhut]

It has been for 30-40 years, it's just crossed some additional thresholds for visibility.

If you aren't looking at George W and Obama as building the road to this point, I don't think you are being critical enough in your analysis. Heck, Bill Clinton was out there being a governor pushing his state to mine blood from prison inmates to sell to international buyers -- blood that was full of hepatitis and hiv.

We need to step away from the "my team your team" mindset with us politics. Both the dominant teams are protecting wealthy interests and willing to do fraud to succeed.