Satire always cuts right to core.
TheOnion.com's article, "I Mean, If I Lose To Mitt Romney, I'll Probably Kill Myself by Barack Obama" presents to me the best explanation of how this election is absolutely insane.
What resonates most with me is this passage:
I mean, wouldn’t you kill yourself if the U.S. population felt that Mitt Romney—a man who basically wrote off half the American population as entitled victims incapable of taking care of themselves—was a more viable leader than you? Wouldn’t you take your own life if a massive segment of the citizenry basically said, “You know what, you ended the war in Iraq, you passed health care reform, you saved the auto industry, you repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, you had 32 straight months of job creation, and you killed Osama bin Laden, but sorry, I’m going with Romney”?
It's always great to get a laugh at a politician's expense. On the other hand, this election is so important on so many levels that it's a laugh tied to intense frustration.
What is wrong with this country? Really? Mitt Romney?