David Brooks sounds off on the upcoming election

David Brooks has an essay in the New York Times in which he takes both parties to task regarding the upcoming election.  He says,

... the two parties contesting this election are unusually pathetic. Their programs are unusually unimaginative. Their policies are unusually incommensurate to the problem at hand.

He continues with a a list of some of the issues that just aren't receiving enough attention from either party.

The number of business start-ups per capita has been falling steadily for the past three decades. Workers’ share of national income has been declining since 1983. Male wages have been stagnant for about 40 years. The American working class — those without a college degree — is being decimated, economically and socially. In 1960, for example, 83 percent of those in the working class were married. Now only 48 percent are.

His essay contains a pretty thorough routing of both parties and is worth a read.