America is not what it was meant to be. It is not, despite misguided efforts at “traditionalism” and Biblical treatments of Constitutional sanctity, the country of its founders. America is barely a shell of the nation they envisioned. Politicians, pundits and network executives across the nation seek above all else the gratification of self and of party, with only a cursory glance cast at the betterment of the nation.
Some months ago, my esteemed colleague Brendan Connolly published a piece that, as was its intention, made me fear for the apocalypse. The article was on scandalized former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s appearance on, of all things, ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.
In 2004 and 2008, presidential voter turnout was 64 percent. In the highly publicized Massachusetts election that brought Scott Brown to the senate, 44 percent of the voting-age population voted, and all it took was 23 percent to give him the win. Boston’s own landmark mayoral election broke ground in more ways than mayoral marathonery; according to Boston.
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