Voters = pawns to be manipulated in the nasty chess game that Republicans & Democrats are playing

[kpete]

"What also seems dangerous is how strongly it confirms the growing skepticism and cynicism with which Americans view their government, our conviction that our leaders are out of touch with, and don’t care about, the well being and the lives of ordinary people, and our belief that politicians see voters merely as pawns to be manipulated in the nasty chess game that Republicans and Democrats are playing against each other. Presumably, the governor’s close associates weren’t stalled on the bridge, nor was it their mothers or grandmothers who might have died in the ambulance en route to the hospital."

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/jan/15/s...