The "Great Event" is a time in a nation's history that seems to stand still, kind of like a young boy's going out on his first date. Everyone, including lawyers, doctors, teachers, and even criminals, has one sole purpose in life — to watch the event.
Oh, I'm sorry: Did I say lawyers? Yes, we shed the daily trappings of our mundane existence and wait with anticipation for history to be made. A nation tunes in; and for that brief period of time, there will be no liberals who dream of equal rights, no conservatives who live in a world gone by, and no socialists who preach of the promised land.
Political philosophy is dead, and the world is as one.
The game is on.
