DALLAS, OH DALLAS!
by Pedro Vélez



Do you really want to know why Republicans won big? Ride the Amtrak! I dare you to take the overnight route from Chicago to Texas. Across vast and beautiful midwestern prairies, you will see foreclosure hell, small towns boarded up, decimated by the wretched economy. You will also see monstrous SUVs, carrying nothing, wasting fuel going nowhere. Whatever happened to jobs, green energy and hope?

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