Shakespeare told us all the world's a stage. I think it's more like a traveling carnival, and politics is definitely the sideshow with the media as barkers out front:
"Alive, alive, alive! SEE the Amazing Man Without A Heart!* How does he live and move? Nobody knows! Hurry, hurry to MEET the Universal Dad! He'll warm the cockles of your heart and find the right oil filter for your Chevy!† WATCH as a fifty-nine year old woman only five feet tall‡ attempts to pass THROUGH a glass ceiling! It's never been done! THRILL to the most amazing self-promoter of all time, the Mystifying Magician! He transformed an entire political party! He multiplies audiences!§ Only one small dollar, just a single U.S. dollar to see them all before your very eyes, walking, talking, doing and saying the most amazing things!"
Yesiree, the one sure thing you can count on is that you'll never get that dollar back. Don't miss the snake-woman and the vanishing gubernatorial candidate!
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* This is patently untrue. The real act retired years ago.
† He has to look it up in the greasy cross-reference book at the auto parts store, same as anybody.
‡ She's 5' 5".
§ Only in his own mind.
Team T is definitely proving Mr. Barnam's adage regarding the production rate of suckers.
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