If free markets are something you dread, Our Constitution is over your head, And American history To you is a mystery, On election day, please, stay in bed. This is someone who can take us into war, or blunder us into war, someone who can restore the rule of law or further corrupt our institutions until this is no longer America. How Al Gore kissed Tipper, how George W. Bush kissed Oprah Winfrey, how Joseph I. Lieberman is Jewish and what Richard B. Cheney's retirement package was from his previous employer. It is also putting enormous power in the hands of political demagogues who exploit the voters' ignorance to gain power for themselves. Participation' is now the magic word, even if it is participation in self-destruction.
Sound bites are usually very unsound.
At least you won't be doing any harm. The political process in America has become a theater of the absurd. Behind The Headlines is syndicated to newspapers and radio stations, free of charge, by America's Future, a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1946 and dedicated to the preservation of our free-enterprise system and our constitutional form of government.