Having followed politics intensively for 50 years or so I find myself suddenly resisting the impulse. I am finding it all a bit too much to handle, like following a sports team that somehow manages to lose year after year, telling myself it will be all the sweeter when, after 50 years of utter failure, my team triumphs.
My team hasn't triumphed.
My actual team has never triumphed.
Indeed, my team lost and all my favorite players are being taken out into a field to be beaten with baseball bats by the local townsfolk.
You know, all those salt of the earth townsfolks the news reporters kept interviewing at diners?
I think what I'm saying is that when my team wins, the joy of it will already be more than I can handle.
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