Candidate: As in Candid and Candide

A recent NYT editorial summarized their objections to the current Republican agenda and opined that their philosophy was responsible for the current economic crisis. Generally the Republicans were held responsible for stagnation in the minimum wage, budget cuts, lower taxes.They do not explain how the Republicans had such influence over the last 30 years with so little success as public candidates nor do they explain why the Europeans with an opposite economic and political view ended up in the same situation as the Americans.

What seems true is the pervasive myth that the two parties are different, that their agendas are other than self perpetuation and that their public statements are somehow either sincere or misunderstood rather than a disguise, a Trojan horse to get them past the electorate's suspicious defenses.