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Presidential Candidates Lose Touch with Reality
Clowning
around issues
of inequality
D ONALD K AUL
Hardly a day
goes by that an-
other
candidate
doesn’t announce
his or her intention
to run for the pres-
idency. One day
it’s Carly Fiorina, the next it’s
Mike Huckabee, Bernie Sand-
ers, or Hillary Clinton, even.
It’s like the circus — when
the little car rolls into the center
ring and a clown gets out, then
another, then two more, and on
and on until the ring is over-
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so it seems.
We won’t get up to 1,000
politicians yearning to lead
the “free world,” or what’s
left of it. But we should reach
two dozen presidential aspi-
rants who are asking us voters
to take them seriously before
we’re done.
It’s still early, but it looks
as though the major message
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of this election is going to be
about closing the cavernous
gaps between the rich and the
poor. Democrats have always
suspected that the poor are be-
ing victimized by our econom-
ic system, but now it seems
that the Republicans are
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singing that song too.
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and left the middle class to
twist slowly in the wind.
Marco Rubio, the Florida
senator who wants to raise the
sales taxes that weigh most
heavily on poor people, now
urges us not to forget those
same people — the workers
who do our society’s grunt
work. He’s also quick to re-
mind us that he’s the son of a
bartender and a maid.
Ted Cruz, leader of the Sen-
ate’s loudmouth caucus, does
Rubio one better. His parents,
he says, were both drunks.
How’s that for humble begin-
nings?
Still, it’s hard to beat the un-
intended irony of Hillary Clin-
ton.
Who else complains with a
straight face that “the deck is
still stacked in favor of those
on top” while she’s busy set-
ting up a super PAC that she
hopes will raise $100 million
for her campaign by July?
Bill Clinton isn’t much help
either. Asked whether he’ll
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speeches to fat cats while his
wife runs for president, he said
he’d have to.
“Got to pay our bills,” he
said. Some bills.
Fiorina, who got a $21 mil-
lion severance package when
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lett-Packard, is determined to
protect workers from mini-
mum-wage raises, which she
says hurt folks hunting for en-
try-level jobs.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walk-
er, a pastor’s son, wants to
protect workers from unions,
in the name of defending the
middle class. And Ben Carson,
an African-American neuro-
surgeon, thinks that the Afford-
able Care Act is the worst thing
since slavery.
Do you get the theme here?
This campaign is going to be
conducted almost entirely in a
parallel universe. It will have
no relation to reality, and what
candidates say will have no
relationship to anything that’s
actually happening. Black is
going to be white and white
black.
Not all the goofballs are run-
ning for president — or mar-
ried to someone who is — yet.
Do you know that there’s a
sizeable faction in Texas that
thinks U.S. Army exercises
over there are prep work for the
declaration of martial law and
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ons? Gov. Greg Abbott actu-
ally tried to deploy the Texas
Guard to ensure that wouldn’t
happen.
What’s happened to this
country? It used to be a fairly
sensible place.
Maybe it’s time to send in
the clowns.
Oh, I forgot. They’re already
here.
OtherWords columnist Don-
ald Kaul lives in Ann Arbor,
Mich.