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Main Street USA: Another Bronx Cheer For Politicians

AudiR102 Wrote: Sep 16, 2009 5:19 AM
We are about to have our fourth election in five years, inspired by a vacuous cartoon character who has been an American Liberal teaching at Harvard for the past 30 years, familiarly known as Iggy. The editorial cartoonists draw him without a head, just a pair of bushy eyebrows floating in the air, and make fun of his flailing attempts to find Substance. He makes campaign commercials that look like hostage videos and he sounds like a character from SCTV.

Our sorry country is turning into a cartoon as it sinks beneath the waves.

America, look to Canada to see the future if you do not get up front in the engine and turn off the ride on the Gravy Train to Hell.

Before it is too late, as Jimmy Durante used to shout,...

It helps to read history. We know, or should, that American life shows us nothing like the social and political conniptions that Germany experienced in the 1920s, France in the 1790s and the United States in the 1850s.

But something is cooking. Indignant people -- I'm sidestepping the adjective "angry" so as to avoid connotations -- don't mysteriously materialize in the capital city to fulminate and castigate on their own nickels. They have to want to. What might make them want to? I would venture, the sense that something's badly, seriously, woefully out of joint in their beloved homeland.