When it comes to celebrating the anticipated shellacking that Democrats will take in the midterms-- possibly even capturing both the House and the Senate-- I'm not as sanguine, indeed giddy, as are the pundits, pollsters, and media gurus who clearly trust that today's politics are the same as they were in pre-2009, pre-totalitarian America.
Back then, we had simple under-the-table deals, payoffs, graft, and widespread voter fraud, all undertaken with a wink and a nod by politicians and the public alike.