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Am I overly cynical or is the "mirage of an opposition," what our entire system of governance is? I don't think there's a big enough policy gulf between the two parties to have real and genuine opposition. Sad state of affairs.Predictably, the Sierra Club, which now functions as little more than an applause machine for the administration, praised both the State of the Union address and the dubious appointments to EPA and Energy. Here we have what Jean-Paul Sartre called “the mirage of an opposition.”