Someone is Selling Transcendental Politics this Election Season
And it isn’t Democrats.
When politicians are engaged in a fierce campaign competition against their political opposition in a fight to career death, they go ahead and reach for the stars. There is a very good reason for this.
Voters love that sort of thing, as any politician worth his salt knows.
Millions of people play the lottery, after all; because hope springs eternal. After the election, voters know, it’s always time to come back down to earth. Just like lotto players who know in their hearts that their next scratch-off isn’t likely to net them millions, voters know their favorite candidate is likely to disappoint them.
Just like they know their “lesser of two evils” candidate is almost contractually obligated to disappoint them even more.
Each and every person elected to higher office arrives with a certain set of skills, including the ability to sell pure blue-sky promises that have been broken a million times before by a million other politicians- somehow- for campaign donations. Most have a communication style at least charismatic enough to get themselves…