>>The town hall meet for me was only a gauge on how stupid they both imagine the onlookers to be.
Amen. Problem is that the US voters have conspired against themselves to provide a choice between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
