Mike Lofgren: US Politics From Bad Theater to Clear and Present Danger to the Public

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A country with bad political theater

By Mike Lofgren,

Washington Post, March 1, 2013

EXTRACT

Politics in Washington has become far worse than the traditional partisan to-and-fro inherent in any democracy. It now presents a danger to orderly day-to-day governance of the country. Politics is no longer the art of the possible; it is bad theater. We are lurching perilously close to becoming Italy, where citizens appear to have given up on being self-governing citizens and instead have cynically chosen reality TV. Criminally implicated tycoons and comedians vie for the presidency; these candidates appeal to many Italians because they provide a diversion from a government in perpetual crisis.

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