A political campaign is popularly presented by its pundits as a game with the sole aim of playing to win. In fact, the players are held on a leash held by their handlers, who package them for a thirty-second-spot on television, as though they were a happy meal to be sold to the public. We deserve better than that, and politicians deserve better than that. We deserve genuine leaders, who offer promising solutions to the complex problems in the life of a nation of individuals with real life concerns to be addressed by those whom we elect. Forming a "more perfect union" will require courage to...
A political campaign is popularly presented by its pundits as a game with the sole aim of playing to win. In fact, the players are held on a leash hel...
