It's the political system, stupid

FRIDAY, NOV 5, 2010 07:01 ET

BY DAVID SIROTA

"...Thus, as I showed in my 2008 follow-up book, "The Uprising," we are now reflexively drawn to whichever minority party candidates promise the swiftest backlash. Whether the challengers happen to be anti-Bush Democrats or anti-Obama Republicans, America is drawn to these faux rebels even though we implicitly know they will almost certainly become part of the problem once elected.

It's kabuki theater ad absurdum -- and it explains a lot..."