There are zero positive trends in this nation, no decent group of people are getting any sort of hand on government. Its just the theocrats and libertarians, two sides of the same authoritarian coin, who are stealing our nations future from us all. In 20 years there will not be a job in the world that does not benefit a capitalist. When obama and his "republican friends" abolish pubic education it will only be the far right that teaches our children. It will be a golden age of libertarianism, we will drop from a nation with a nominal middle class to a clear slave state, and the wealthy will scream in delight.