Caught a couple of segments of  Part 1 of 4 of the Frontline series:Money, Power and Wall Street It was preceeded by a presentation of the "American Experience" on the particulars of the '29 crash and the lead up to the great depression. It is a thought provoking set of programs. It is actually painful to be a citizen who worked for a large Bank's operations that had manipulations and accounting of the products mentioned in the piece. Credit Default Swaps and Direvatives were small parts of my job. I was not a executive, just a software engineer that built tools for management.

As a culture, we learned absolutely nothing from the "Greatest Generation" that we let it happen and that we have allowed ourselves to be so divided that to fix it will require things different that great plans. It will require some form of submission on one side and/or an acceptance of those submitting. Loosely analogous to the civil war reconstruction, or loosely analogous to the pattern of Christ and the Roman Empire. Perhaps that of the acceptance of Neo of the virus from Agent Smith in the final Matrix: Revolutions or better yet that of Washington's farewell to the troops and leaving the Presidency.

We need to be a whole again. The Red and Blue states need to let the purple bruising of coming together to heal.