I finally put my finger on why this election is so disturbing to me. (I consider this a coup for the day.) It's that old and brilliant idea put forth by Walter Benjamin regarding the "aestheticization of politics." As ideas and principles become upstaged by images, as images become the political experience, we enter a dangerous arena that can be a precursor to Fascism.
I hate to sound all paranoid. But nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, as they say.
