Article: Voters, blame thyselves. (political accountability) (Editorial) (Cover Story)

AS AMERICA'S elections lurch into the final stretch, the most obvious thing about them is that voters are furious. They hate government. They hate the president. They hate their senators and congressmen. This black mood is no monopoly of America's. Britons are feeling sleazy; the French are having another bout of morosite; Italians ask whether they will ever get a clean-handed government; even Japan, for once, wonders where its politicians are taking it. The G7, with maybe a half-exception for Germany, is the Grumpy Seven. But what goes through American minds matters most, because America is still the necessary cornerstone of a sensible world.

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