The Difference Between Winning and Watching the Other Guy Lose
The Impossible Dream is fast replacing the American Dream. Which is why the country must invent a new political party to replace the aging and toothless Democrats. We can do better and vote for change are meaningless phrases by a party bankrupt of solutions.
We all know the sports metaphor for collapse; a major golf tournament’s third-round leader puts four in the water to let an unknown, six strokes back, win the tournament. A three run lead in the seventh game of baseball’s World Series dissolving into a five-error ninth inning loss. We’re about to witness the political metaphor. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll,
Approval of Congress has plunged to its lowest level in more than a decade (32 percent), and Americans, by a margin of 54 percent to 35 percent, say they trust Democrats more than Republicans to deal with the biggest problems the nation is confronting. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed said congressional Democrats deserve to be reelected next month, but just 39…