Mini Planet: P.T. Barnum showed how easily were duped and how little it disturbs us. Over a century later, as major parties produce successions of liars as candidates, we should be wary of assigning too much virtue to our officials or attributing societal or personal successes to them.
Yet, defying such logic and conditioning, pluralities of voters continue to acquiesce, placing trust in a two-party system which repeatedly betrays them. How else, after Bernie Sanders obligatory, establishment expulsion,...