The Culture Wars are back

We are back in the 1960s.  I thought that it was kind of scary to have lived through the 1950s during the last eight years, but I am equally tired of living through another failed "Great Society".  Here we are at the cusp of one of the greatest chances in our lifetimes to overhaul our society to face the onslaught of a broken economic system, a failed health care system, and a threatened environment (to name just a few).  Yet, all we do is fall into deep partisan rancor, splitting each other apart through lies, deception and slogans of totalitarianism and fear.  It is terrible to think that we might never, and I repeat never, get any "real" reform in this country.  Yes, we have staved off some of the more extremist factions of our society from ruling the majority, but we have also shot down some of the best policy that our people can devise.  And that is where we are today.  We would rather go through another cruel cultural civil war than actually reform our society to meet the challenges of our modern world.  Is it deception, or is it true mediocrity and, dare I say, "idiocracy"?