Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

Given the sense of elation that surely washed over America's luxury news suites today I have yet to read a single piece defending one-party rule. Perhaps they are embarrassed to defend it; it would make them look like stooges for tyrannies, never mind if you're happy you live in an enlightened tyranny. Surely one could (if one tried) make a reasoned, logical case for it -- although possibly the best one could do is "it will make the trains run on time." (Like Mussolini.) But the Republicans merely made their one-party state bigger and more fraudulent, and the Dems will make theirs bigger and more fraudulent still. With an outcome so supremely advantageous to hacks it speaks to their utter cowardice that they cannot endorse their animal vanity. It will not do to liken them to tobacco companies or fast-food chains; the hacks, after all, have told us for decades they're better than that. So they will gloat in private, and evade stares in public, and rule our world as usual.

P. S. Perhaps it is melodramatic to speak of one-party rule; but in modern media's use democracy is a code word for total control.