… We are at a time when the bizarre has become routine. At a college-football game over the weekend, a friend wondered how the satirical website The Onion, known for parodies of the news, stays in business when fact is even stranger than fiction. Who could possibly make this up?
In so many ways, American politics bears little resemblance to what it was when I worked on my first campaigns in high school and college in the early 1970s. My late father, an electrical engineer, once said to me that so much of the field he studied in college had become almost totally irrelevant in the transition from tubes to transistors and then to integrated circuits. In politics, we are seeing much the same taking place. In their words, deeds, and priorities, both parties have contributed to this new reality of what no longer seems like the one country referenced in our Pledge of Allegiance. It has become anything but indivisible. CONT.
Charlie Cook