I’m sorry about three politics-related items in a row, but something jawdropping showed up in the news a few days back.

It appears that during the early 80s, at the height of the Cold War, US senator Ted Kennedy¹ conspired with leaders of Soviet Union toward the defeat Ronald Reagan in his presidential reelection campaign.

Isn’t America great? A member of the government can get away with taking the side of an enemy and yet continue to get re-elected? In a lesser nation, people who do that could be convicted of treason and executed.

¹ This is the same Ted Kennedy (D-MA) about whom Mary Jo Kopechne has no comment.