Hopefully, this sorry performance will lead to serious questioning of candidates in the 2016 election process. but it won't: these questions simply will be ignored by the Anchortown and Wassilly residents until their world falls down around their ears. The sad part is that they will be taking real Alaskans down with them.

The toilet has been flushed; the debris is beginning to swirl; soon all will go down the plumbing to the sewer.