Encouraging signs
Safe bet that the blind partisan parrots are past their sell-by date. Four years ago, when I wrote comments in various blogs or papers pointing out that both parties were equally to blame for ________ [fill in anything], I was
absolutely alone. All the other commenters were mindlessly copy-pasting the current day's brand-R or brand-D talking points.
Now when I start to write a pox-on-both-houses comment, I find it's already been written, and better than my attempt would have been! The partisan copy-pasters are still there, but the non-team players, the thinkers outside the chalk lines, are starting to dominate.
Good sign.