Political parties, meanwhile, have distilled themselves so completely to their essences that they have caricatured themselves into cartoonish self-parody. Witness the recent town hall wherein President Obama’s audience was culled from a casting call, and the Republican ad campaign in West Virginia that sought “hicky” people. Oy, as we say down South.
Republicans and Democrats are so busy pointing fingers, they fail to see what is plainly obvious. They are mirror images of each other, and each is equally cynical and corrupt…
The political divide between Elites and Ordinary Americans has never been starker or more comical, or more resplendent with self-loathing. When even Republicans view their base as ignorant rednecks — and Democrats no longer try to conceal their reliance on artifice and propaganda — farce has become the new reality.
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