It is said the signature of a true optimist is one who hopes for a different outcome in watching the same movie twice. We laugh and laugh. How can anyone, yes anyone continue with such beliefs? Yet we do, particularly when the promise seems so real, or when the circumstances are ever so slightly different, or when we really think this time is the charm. Most of us are not such optimists as to movies. But we are so, if the plot, characters, or situation are ever so slightly different. This is the time... or so we hope. Case in point: local or national elections. We see the one party offering salvation, jobs, prosperity, retribution, redistribution, reconciliation, and otherwise personal betterment, the other offering much the same. If you liked the first movie and the promises, and have learned to hate the alternative, you are an easy sale. You vote predictably. Your vote is counted in the bank months before even the candidate is announced. If the incumbent promises a big
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