…that the Republicans are not the only ones pandering to their “base”, and they are not the only ones exhibiting hypocritical behaviors.
In my considered opinion, neither major party in the United States is truly worthy of holding and wielding the power that our system grants to the Presidency and the Congress.
We deserve better, and as I have said often on Random Fate, we should demand better. Until we do, however, we will be stuck with the hypocritical panderers we now have.
Isn’t it time we demanded better?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.