Because it is important to the rest of the world, and Canada in particular, I have been following the American electioneering as intently as our own Canadian one. What exiting times for political aficionados such as I.
Watching Sara Palin is like seeing a deadpan comedian performing, except she is really earnest in her histrionics. What we are really experiencing here is a “dumbing down” of American politics, the likes of which we haven’t seen before, except on reruns of “All In the Family”. Indeed, to quote Cynthia Harrison: “the founders of the American republic were hoping that Americans would agree to be governed not by an inherited aristocracy but an aristocracy of merit” or a meritocracy (italics are mine). Fat chance. What we have here is a race to the bottom, but the plebeians who wish to see one of theirs in the presidency, might rue their choice when they find that their emperor has no clothes.
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