Like Kirk and Spock, I fear we may have passed through to a parallel (political) universe. Remember that episode of Star Trek (original series) where Captain Kirk, Scotty, Dr. McCoy, and Lt. Uhura accidentally transported into a parallel universe which was an eerie mirror image of the real world? The Federation was an evil “Terran Empire.†Star Fleet officers moved up not by merit, but by assassinating their superiors. And mirror-universe Spock wore a cool goatee. Well, sometimes I feel like I’ve just woken up in a political parallel universe. Otherwise, how else can we explain a world where: Fidel...