The Democan-Republicrat Duopoly presents: its quadrennial production of American Marionette Theater! Yes, every four years the militarized corporatocracy that runs USA, Inc. puts on a show designed to create a little distracting drama with the hopes of drumming up public interest in its ongoing farce. Success is a game of numbers: if the corporatocracy can convince a majority of registered voters to return to the polls in order to ratify its choice of two puppets, one of those puppets will then be granted a four year term as "chief executive" and live in a mansion in Washington, D.C.
Why should the American public bother with participating in this quadrennial farce? Because, for most people, what William James so rightly named the "will to believe" is tantamount to the will to live. If the American people were ever to admit to themselves that the story they tell about themselves (their sacred narrative) is a fiction and that they do not possess a government of, by, and for the people, the onus would be upon them to take action against the existing regime. That would require much personal courage and sacrifice.
Better to content oneself with bread and circuses in this, the Empire of the Evening Lands.
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