Here is Nero fiddling while Rome burns and Christians are fed to the lions.

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In the slinging of insults and inanities that seemed to characterize this election season, it is hard not see ourselves as fiddling while Rome burns.

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It's just tweaking at the edges, fiddling while Rome burns.

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