Imagine going to the grocery store to pick out your food for the week and finding the doors locked.
Instead, outside, there are two carts to choose from: a red and a blue one, each full of different groceries. There’s more fruit in one, better eggs in the other, and only one has the cereal your children likes.
So, because you can’t choose your own groceries, you choose the cart that fits you best and deal with what’s inside.
That, brothers Hyrum and Verlan Lewis said, is how the political system feels in the United States right now.
The Lewis brothers, political scientists and co-authors of “The Myth of Left and Right,” spoke with former Tennessee Govs. Bill Haslam and Phil Bredesen during a live podcast taping Thursday at a Rotary Club of Chattanooga meeting.