http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/working+families+party/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:00:00 -0600 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4077/those_other_elections/ A month after Barack Obama's triumphant victory, we are still celebrating America's only authentic national religion, and it isn't Christianity--it's presidentialism, the worship of the president as an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who is the only important political actor in our country. This theology explains why both the public and the press corps seem far more interested in the Obama family dog and the Obama daughters' choice of elementary school than what happened down ticket on Election Day. In our nation, presidential pooches and prep schools are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips. That said, the Founding Fathers would be happy to know that, though their efforts to constitutionally constrain presidentialism failed, we… elections Obama Working Families Party Rachel Jefferson