All Empires Eventually Destroy Themselves.

Democrats Have Become Very Good At Electing Very Bad Republicans

The Liberal Intelligentsia Has Allowed Its Party To Become A Captive Of Corporate Interests.

Business Of Blurring Is Fantastic. They Both Are Playing The Politics Of Avoidance. They Avoid All The Issues On Corporate Power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, So On And So Forth. They Avoid All Those. That's The Politics Of Avoidance. All The Major Issues That Are So Much On People's Minds - Health Care, Living Wage, Public Works, Jobs - They Avoid.

A Citizenship Of Wholesale Delegation And Abdication To Public And Private Power Systems, Such As Prevails Now, Makes Such Periodic Checks As Elections Little More Than Rituals.

The 60th Seed At Wimbledon Gets A Chance At Center Court. The 60th Seed In The Ncaa Gets A Chance To Go To The Final Four. But The Third Seed [in Presidential Politics] Is Shut Out.