Send in the Clowns

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Send in the Clowns

Monday, 18 May 2015 00:00
By Donald Kaul, OtherWords | Op-Ed

As the 2016 presidential candidates belatedly get worked up about inequality, they're losing touch with reality.

Hardly a day goes by that another candidate doesn't announce his or her intention to run for the presidency. One day it's Carly Fiorina, the next it's Mike Huckabee, Bernie Sanders, or Hillary Clinton, even.

It's like the circus — when the little car rolls into the center ring and a clown gets out, then another, then two more, and on and on until the ring is overflowing with 1,000 clowns, or so it seems.

We won't get up to 1,000 politicians yearning to lead the "free world," or what's left of it. But we should reach two dozen presidential aspirants who are asking us voters to take them seriously before we're done.

It's still early, but it looks as though the major message of this election is going to be about closing the cavernous gaps between the rich and the poor. Democrats have always suspected that the poor are being victimized by our economic system, but now it seems that the Republicans are singing that song too. ...........(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30834-send-in-the-clowns

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