This election started as a contest over ideas. It's devolving into the usual soap opera shit.

On both the Dem and GOP sides.

The GOP said has been much worse with the entrance of the Trumpster. It's become a combination of WWE/Reality TV and bad soap opera.

But Democrats -- who could be focusing on real issues of Wealth and Power, and how we return them to the majority -- have devolved into a somewhat more polite version of that shallow nonsense.

Meanwhile Rome smolders while the parties fiddle.