The Great American Political Circus, Now With Extra Clowns
Ladies, gentlemen, and the increasingly large number of people who identify as “exhausted,” welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth: The United States of America, where the political process has evolved from a system of checks and balances into a high-stakes reality show that determines which party controls our nuclear weapons.
Democrats now must bow to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which is the rising communist wing of the party. And communism is like veganism: Both are fine unless you like food.
American politics has reached a level of sophistication previously reserved for middle-school cafeteria arguments and Twitter (sorry, X) quote-tweets. The two major parties, those ancient and venerable institutions, have long since abandoned the quaint notion of governing in favor of a perpetual performative theater of the absurd. (RELATED: Group Of GOP Senators Said They Would Force Vote To Delay Recess Over SAVE Act. What Gives?)
Consider the current landscape. One side insists the country is months from fascist dictatorship, while the other insists it is months from socialist collapse.
The Democrats’ de facto leaders are ex-bartender Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and a Muslim Socialist/Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani. Showing that he can be reasonable, Mamdani has stopped all........
