In a Facebook post this morning I wrote the following with a link to a Joan Walsh essay at Salon. Quoting her:

“Isn’t it fair to ask whether the constant denigration of government, and the resulting defunding, now makes it harder to handle what everyone agrees are core government functions?”

I continued in my own words,

Of course it is. Do all the clever (?) Democratic political consultants working on campaigns with three weeks to go have the good sense to point this out, over and over again ad infinitum? I sure as hell hope so.

Well, some clever third party called the Agenda Project has created a one-minute ad for the political class which does just that.

What say you, Democratic candidates? Have you got the courage to use that ad?