by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:
But in the meantime, enjoy the political theatrics down on the sand-strewn floor of the Coliseum.
While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in power gets little notice. Scrape away the differences–mostly in domestic issues–and we see the dead hand of Imperial Corruption is on the tiller.