This really sums up a lot of the problems with American politics:
The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy
million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a
cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if
someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal,
whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow
to put on it. - Davis X. Machina, balloon-juice.com
