Vince McMahon & the WWE

You've got to hand it to Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Entertainment. He has created a brand that has grown in popularity and value beyond all expectation and serves as a lesson to us all what an enterprising individual can accomplish. His wrestling bouts feature characters created as icons that are alternatingly seductive and repugnant whose function is to keep the audience riled up, at odds with one another and in a frenzy over what is, in fact, a scripted outcome. I'm guessing he modeled the whole show after the Republicans and Democrats.

That our political system operates on the same basis as the WWE, with scripted controversies and purportedly adversarial parties, using icons that are alternatingly seductive and repugnant whose function is to keep the electorate riled up, at odds with one another and in a frenzy over what is, in fact, a scripted outcome is evident. Should there be the slightest doubt about this, notice how the Democrats have generously continued funding the war in Iraq, all the while denouncing it. They sound like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin railing against Tazz giving the appearance of an actual conflict.

It doesn't matter which of Vince McMahon's icons wins a match; it is always to the benefit of the WWE. In the same manner, the Republicans and Democrats offer us the opportunity, at every turn, to elect a candidate representative of the CFR. Yes, the Council on Foreign Relations and their clients have been well served by Republicans and Democrats alike.