[youngerdryas]

>The future for the USA is dimmer than the past, unfortunately, no matter which major party wins the next several elections.

Hardly. I fail to see how the domestic oil boom is a liability, technologically superior energy sources will win in the long run more quickly with a stable economy in the west. Which political party wins is practically irrelevant in the long term as today's liberal morphs into tomorrow's conservative in an unstoppable march of progress.