Both mainstream political parties are, when the finery comes off and the raw bones exposed, "progressive." It has been a while, a looong while, since government and big business were not sharing the same bunk. There will be a lot of palaver about "jobs" in the October "debates" but precious little fact, reason, or history. Are Americans not entitled to know why they not only ended up buying Samsung but working for Samsung? Would it not be useful to unpack our Present in terms of our Past, delving into what happened in the aftermath of WW II and the anti-colonialist movements, discussing how the WTO, IMG, GATT shaped the global economy--way outside the ken and will of the average American--and how the GSP diddled the "free market" in the interests of globalism and the new, progressive "enlightened economics." Americans' economic future was cast in stone decades ago, and it will take a tough stonebreaker to change any of it. I don't see any of these stonebreakers in the current race.