By Scott Holland, includes “… ‘Through the machines they raced round and about again … Changing their stars every minute or two. … They kept paying money. They kept running through … Until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew … Whether this one was that one … or that one was this one … Or which one was what one … or what one was who.’ This stanza from Dr. Seuss’ 1961 tale ‘The Sneetches,’ a fable about the folly of superficial discrimination, rang through my head while trying to make sense of the current state of political corruption in Illinois. …”