Ah yes — American politics — as real as 1950s cowboy movies — and an audience ready to eat it all up — fed as they are on action superhero fantasies.

Leni Riefenstahl would be quite amused at the much more efficient methods of narrative manipulation fed the populace on every television network. (Like little kids learning Russophobia via Boris Badenov on the Bullwinkle show.)

We left 1984 for the totalitarians — and went with the consumer comforts submission of Brave New World here.

The empire beneth the duopoly is delighted with these exciting distractions that keep the military-industrial-corporate-media complex in place.

Pass the bucket of "buttered" popcorn and the 30-spoofuls-of-sugar beverage — and crank up the heroes and villains fantasy at the iMax — Americans are getting ready to vote.