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A newspaper reader says, a political party will ruin itself

if it makes error like this.

My higher politics says, a party which makes errors like this

is already in decline.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

The ad, I believe, was from 2009.

“Snuggies” were basically blankets with sleeves;

why struggle with blankets,

the voiceover said

while a woman in bed fought with a comforter

as if it were an intruder who crept in the window.

The commercial became fodder for late night comics,

all of whom asked, in one way or another,

are Americans really struggling with blankets?

Blanket statements, blanket immunity.

Blanket defenses and smallpox blankets.

Americans are struggling with something, it seems.

We can say, shame on us, if it happens

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