There is no more highly charged and explosive subject than that of Politics. Most people hear the words "Politics" or "Politician" and instantaneously turn on the bullshit meter and turn off their ability to believe anything they hear. Considering how politics is practiced in America, this is a perfectly understandlable Pavlovian response to a wad of feces being hurled at your face at 47 mph as you leap over a dung heap while jogging.

For Americans today, Politics is the ultimate reality show. A marvelous conglomeration of Survivor meets Big Brother. We start with a huge pool of contestants that we lock up in inclusive, luxurious buildings. We give them huge salaries, limousines, personal asistants, personal security, lots of interns to fuck, and all the media attention they can grab. We then subject them to numerous challenges throughout their terms of service. We watch them form tribes and alliances and then switch sides to better their position. We cheer them on as they form racially and morally dominated packs and fight for supremacy. We listen to them continuously stab each other in the back while pretending to be the best of friend in front of the camera. And every four to six years or so (even sooner if the bastard really pisses us off) we vote some self agrandizing windbag off the island and banish him to the Today Show where he can whine and cry about how he was a victim of politics (isn't that a laugh) and then go on speaking tours, if he isn't facing an indictment or prison sentence by then. This is the shameful way we have come to view the governing of our country and, with all due respect to Alec Baldwin and the alien hoard at HULU.com, there is no sadder testament to that old saying that "Television Rots Your Brain!"