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This article grabbed me this morning:

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/are-we-getting-the-leaders-1397064998158390.html

I'm starting to think that the political world has become little better than a Colosseum where the gladiators don't fight each other with swords and tridents, but with slander and pettiness... And while we can point to this and say it's nothing new, and we can even point to the idea that this kind of pandering ensures that people stay in the headlines, which may seem like a good idea, I wonder what this says about US...

Aren't we better than the roaring crowd of the Roman era, cheering on lions as they devour hapless Christians?

Aren't we better than the debauched masses reaching for any kind of entertainment? Any kind of diversion?

Why do we, who should be much more enlightened, succumb to the desire to look at the train wreck that this political cycle has become?

I wish I could say I was any better - and I flatter myself to think that I am. But when a guy who deliberately uses 4th grade speech patterns is a viable (almost inevitable) candidate to be the PRESIDENT... I have to think - what does this say about us?

Maybe it's all a scheme - a conspiracy worked out months or years in advance - to ensure that Ms. Clinton gets elected. That would be clever if not entirely subtle or unexpected.

And maybe we really are getting the leaders we deserve.

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