Introducing a fictitious politician, Governor of an unidentified state named S. Lee Zbag. Call him “Governor Lee.” He has a new acquaintance, a wealthy and ambitious businessman named Richard Guy. Let’s call him “Rich.” Governor Lee has expensive tastes and enjoys the good life. Rich knows what the wealthy and powerful have known for years: local politicians are easier to buy off than national-level politicians. In the District, Senators and Representatives demand top dollar and get it. In the hinterlands, however, there are bargains galore. And Governor Lee is for sale.
Ghost Voters in the Sky
A delusion is a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.
– Chandra Kiran and Suprakash Chaudhury, “Understanding delusions“
When a man sees things others don’t see, the most beneficial possibility is that he is a visionary. Unfortunately, visionaries are as common as icicles in Yuma and it’s more likely the vision is the product of delusion, hallucination, or fabrication. For example, Donald Trump told a rally he “watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” when they saw the World Trade Center collapse on 911. “I saw it,” he told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News. “It was on television.” Nobody else saw the thousands of invisible celebrants that Trump saw. The Washington Post, while awarding Four Pinocchios, generously characterized the claim as “another case of Trump’s overactive imagination.” That’s a politically correct way of saying “delusion.”
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