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Teach Voters Patience and End Sitcom Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2010 Comment (6)Sorry, I keep coming up with these theories--let me test this one out and see what people think. I have been mulling this over for a while.
My theory is that there is a huge gap between what we have been taught to expect from government, from the private sector, from society in general, and what is being delivered. Most of us have grown up now in the post TV-sitcom era. Our nightly shows, beginning in the 1950s, were designed to introduce characters, present a problem or dilemma and solve it all in the space of 24 minutes, allowing time for commercials. We were ingrained with the notion that problems were easy to solve. Heck, if Father Knows Best could do it in a half hour or Bonanza could take 48 minutes, as Alfred E. Neuman would say in Mad magazine, “What, Me Worry?”
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Why Americans Are Anxious, Angry, and Scared
Tweet Share on Facebook July 14, 2010 Comment (18)You can feel it on the Hill, you can feel it within the White House, you can sense it in most households across the country. Anxiety, fear, anger.
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Wall Street-Main Street Message Is Key to 2010 Democratic Wins
Tweet Share on Facebook July 1, 2010 Comment (3)Are we Democrats turning into Chicken Little--“the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” Yeah, maybe more than we care to think.
