Here is a fairly short, 25 minute overview of the American political landscape that Thomas Frank delivers in The Shaw Address in Australia.
He urges them not to go down a similar path in 'this low, dishonest age.'
"The days are coming when men will go mad, and when they meet a man who has kept his senses, will rise up against him, saying, 'You are mad, because you are not like us.' And I said, 'What can get us through such snares?' And then I heard a voice saying to me — humility.” Saint Anthony the Great, Abbot of Colzim Egypt, 251-356 AD