The decay of American democracy

The 2010 US election campaign, now mercifully concluded, marks a further descent by the American two-party system into political imbecility.

The lion’s share of this vast sum went for the purchase of television attack ads that reached a crescendo over the past weekend. It was impossible to watch a news program, drama, comedy or sporting event without being subjected to a torrent of filth, mind-numbing in its viciousness, repetitiveness and obvious insincerity.

RIGHT: Joe Miller, Barbara Murkowski—the first a candidate for the Tea Party, the second a veteran of the corrupt politics that define the GOP. Both poisonous choices for the electorate of Alaska.

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