This is a really good “article” on the effect of web and social media on the American two party system. Hopefully you can deal with the new-wave-punk-hipster format of bite-sized tweets collated by Storify.

Who needs a third party when the existing two parties have become powerless to stop insurgencies from within?

Originally shared by Emlyn O’Regan

I shared this last week but Salon changed the link on the article to  a 404. Here is the new link. Worth a read.

Hillary announced that the public must be made to understand that Bill was taking them on a “journey” and that he had a “vision” for what the administration was doing, a “story” that distinguished good from evil. The way to dramatize this story, the first lady continued (in Bernstein’s telling), was to pick a fight with supporters.

“You show people what you’re willing to fight for, Hillary said, when you fight your friends—by which, in this context, she clearly meant, When you make them your enemy.”