and on the right, where they do sacralize america, they can't think about the nuances about how america is not always right, american foreign policy did contribute to 9/11, but you can't say that because people on the right will see that as sacrilege. so they're blind. whereas people on the left have a more nuanced view. so, you know, everything's a rorschach test. as long as there's any ambiguity, one side will see the things that damn it, the other side will see the things that praise it. >> but isn't there reality below that rorschach test? if occupy wall street is saying, 'inequality is growing, the american dream, upward mobility is disappearing. fifty million people in poverty,' something's wrong with our democratic and capitalist system -- >> and i think something is wrong with our democratic and capitalist system. and this is where i think the left has really fallen down in articulating what's wrong. the right has been extremely effective and has funded think tanks that have made the case very powerfully for what's good about capitalism. and they're right. i mean, without capita