After watching the nightly news, I get the feeling that if this country were an airplane, the far left is the pilot who wants to pull the joystick back and climb steeper and steeper until the wings stall and the plane crashes, while the far right is the co-pilot who wants to push the joystick forward and dive the plane into the ground. Right now, they’re fighting over the joystick, with one pulling back on it and the other pushing forward on it. The passengers in the plane are worried. The passengers are telling the pilots to compromise and let the joystick have a middle setting. But the pilots are no-compromise guys. The pilot says the middle setting is no good because the plane won’t be climbing. The co-pilot says the middle setting is no good because the plane won’t be descending. Fortunately, the two pilots are equally strong and equally stubborn, so for the time being the airplane flies level. But, one cannot help feeling that something bad is imminent.
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