A New American Century Of… You

What is the disease of the current American body politic? In Washingwood, we think we’ve got it figured out. After all, we helped create it. Like a shady pharmaceutical company that creates the illness they then seek to “treat and cure,” Washingwood and its component parts, Hollywood and Washington D.C., have created a particular paradigm mixing message and bloviating about policy… all directed toward and for you.

A bit of history: Identity politics for good and ill has been around for more than three decades. Interest groups, religious, secular, gay, straight, gun-nutty, anti-gun-nutty… pick your poison. The informed or semi-informed voter identified with the group and thus the candidate who sought that voter’s support identified with the... Leer Más