This works a little too well

If you want to sum up this Election in a sound bite - try this for size from the movie (blockbuster they tell me), The Matrix:

Morpheus: "This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."

As I say, that works a little too well to be a co-inky-dink (although I don't know if I would call a nanny state, full of well above the average wage earning 'beneficiaries'; 'wonderland')!