Was listening to Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” the other day (feeling nostaglic. Why doesn’t anyone write songs like that anymore?) when these lyrics struck me as especially appropriate for the current presidential campaign:
 

“… all lies and jest.”

“Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest…”

 

 

 
Not the first time the disaffected have been mesmerized by the populist rhetoric and promises of a would-be messiah…
 
Won’t be the last.
 
 

“Lie la lie, lie la lie lie lie lie lie lie…”