Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, recently wrote that the Democratic Party’s problem was elitism.

Seems we have 56 million elite voters in the country. Strange to call 48% of the voting public elite.

Union workers are elite? Economically struggling elderly and single moms are not ordinary Americans?

The genius of deceivers like Karl Rove had been to convince people — including Parker, apparently — that the party of the hyper-rich corporate powers is not the party of the elite. As happened a century ago, the American voters will soon realize that they have been offered a false choice between a good and evil.

Frankly, I don’t think electoral choices are a sensible test of a person’s morality. In fact, I’m convinced that most Americans — most humans — share fairly high moral standards. Where Americans honestly differ is how to devise public policies that harmonize with our shared moral sense.

Politics ought to be about resolving those differences regarding public policy, not about who is more moral — and certainly not about privately held morals and values. Karl Rove and his ilk have distorted the political discussion, and cheated the American public out its greatest heritage, a democratic policy-making process.