One could argue that with Obama in office, the US currently already is a 4-year reality tv show.
I suppose one could. But if one did, one would be wrong.
It's unfortunate indeed that Obama chose to play partisan politics with the War on Terror. But I have no sympathy with the Republicans who obstructed the United States from joining the rest of the civilized world in ensuring - in a simple, uncomplicated fashion, instead of a bureaucratic nightmare that continues to involve private health insurers - that every American who needs medical care just gets it, with the government paying.
I don't know why the two parties don't get it, and I hope someday someone will. Americans want their country to be strong, and to stand up against tyrants and dictators of whatever stripe anywhere in the world. But they also want the economy to be strong - with Americans producing the things Americans use, so that ordinary working people in America are prosperous.
Or, to put it even more simply:
We can shut down the auto factories and steel mills after all the black people are sending their kids to college, so that we would need to let in immigrants from Mexico to find people who would work in them - not before.
That's the way to end the drug problem in America. That's the way to build a strong and healthy and united nation.
