Since March, when I was accused of being racist for a statement I made about the influence of blacks on Obama's historic campaign, people have been stopping me to express a common sentiment: If you're white you can't open your mouth without being accused of being racist. They see Obama's playing the race card throughout the campaign and no one calling him for it as frightening. They're not upset with Obama because he's black; they're upset because they don't expect to be treated fairly because they're white. It's not racism that is driving them, it's racial resentment. And that is enforced because they don't believe he understands them and their problems. That when he said in South Carolina after his victory "Our Time Has Come" they believe he is telling them that their time has passed.

This is a former candidate for vice president who wrote this editorial. Not some marginalized angry person.

Pluralism has begun to fail as people realize that organic alliances -- caste, race, and moral inclination -- are dividing us now that the previous underdogs have the numbers to be equal partners. Everyone's doing what benefits them, including those who championed underdogs to make themselves seem more altruistic.

Even corporate advertising is reigning in the "let's all get along" rhetoric.

The fact is that we need a society unified around consensus, and until we get one, we will be fighting each other and being unfair to one another. That's a path to nothing but failure.