[rockrr]

"A thousand years from now, if anyone still cares about American politics, this presidential campaign will be known as the "phony election.""

Why Phsstpok, if I didn't know better, I'd think cynicism had gotten the better of you ;'}

Just because a bunch of third-tier political hacks are being paraded as our best & brightest!

"What if they gave an election and no one came"?!

[Phsstpok]

The question is not “am I cynical?”

The question is “am I cynical enough?”

that’s a paraphrase of my favorite question from a movie, substituting “cynical” for the original “paranoid.” Of course, the terms can be used interchangeably in many cases.