Politics

    Politics is the art of keeping track of favors so you can rule the planet - or at least that's the way it looks from my perspective. Of course, the closer one gets to the point of planet-ruling, the harder it is to get up another rung, because everyone below you on the ladder is trying to pull you off.
    Beyond that, politicians are too busy fighting each other to even allow logic to intervene. Sound laws are horribly, horribly corrupted by people trying to one-up one another to ascend just one more rung. It also seems strange that their ultimate goal is to become President - a job which has made everyone who takes up the mantle appear to age forty years in a mere four.
    Why anyone would want a job whose description is basically "stress, stress, more stress, and heaping piles of stress" is beyond me. I also have no intentions of becoming a politician now or ever. I have better things to do with my life than run around thinking I'm the center of the Earth.


    Although I may not think highly of politicians, they are a vital part of our governmental system - though I'll not comment on which part! In fact, the government is doing a very good job of defending its own interests, like any organism would - at this point, we have more than enough computer power to tally up all votes of the citizens of America directly, making the Electoral College technically obsolete.
    Another thing I have a problem with is the sheep-like attitude of some voters. As my father would put it: "the Republicans have them [the sheep voters] firmly convinced two plus two equals seven." If all voters were to look at the best candidate for the job, that would be one thing, but I occasionally picture the majority of voters as wandering around saying "Hurr, I'm a Republican! Durr!" Taking and holding one opinion and never allowing anyone to tell you an argument against it seems to me a dangerous case of self-concietedness and not to be encouraged.



    I'm bad at endings, so here's a picture of ABC's logo!

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