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Are we, the American public, like people watching a train wreck about to happen?

It's a feeling I've increasingly had of late as the election nears: the rapidfire commentaries and meta-commentaries, the journalistic/Big Media manipulation (both rightward and leftward), the writhings and cawings of the different blogospheric camps... and beneath it all, a whiff of something like morbid curiosity, like we're all on the train, barrelling down the tracks, watching the other train head toward us, too fascinated by the thought of impact to consider jumping off into the tall green grass whipping by.

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