A Boston Yankee in King Jimbo's Court
Hollywood-scripted soap operas may or may not have happy endings (if they have any closure at all). More often than not, the storytelling process fades like the Cheshire Cat leaving the audience to make up their own fantasized endings.
Political theater is more like Greek Tragedy, for obvious reasons. Hubris, hamartia, and delusional beliefs are the basic ingredients for the fallen angel food cake, burbling wildly in an overheated oven.
Candidates like One/CHL keep the drama interesting. After all, who's gonna pull up a lawn chair to watch a tug-of-war where one side routinely overpowers the other?
The real tragedy is the lamentably arrested rate of learning in a project that purports to represent the sum of all human knowledge.
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