Election Season is Over
And on the day before the election, Jon Stewart delivered the thought that appropriately closed 2012’s Election Season:
It seems that political organizations and political parties have become whiny bastions of faux-persecuted-victimized individuals that feel like anyone who doesn’t agree with their worldview is persecuting them– do you want to punch them?
—- Jon Stewart to Martha Raddatz on 11/05/2012
It would not be correct to leave out the “punch” part of the bit, but yes, it was in jest- and it was meant to all of those who feel like whoever disagrees with them is, in some way, out to get them.
The meat of that quote- using “faux-persecuted-victimized individuals” to describe partisan folks is too good to ignore.