Politics...

...suck. Forgive such a crass observation, but one would be hard-pressed to argue with it. For the most part, politicians are in it for themselves--at least that's how it seems. Blanket statements are made about "caring for the public", "providing equal opportunity", and "returning the nation to the people". And, if elected, these politicians will legislate all this while sitting in a million-dollar mansion, wearing a three-thousand-dollar suit (or pants suit, if you will), and donning a four-hundred-dollar haircut. To be sure, some of them really do mean well. But the political machine sucks them in and consumes them. Their noble pursuits are drowned out in a sea of bureaucratic red tape and meaningless policies and procedures.

And what of this business of "returning the nation to the people"? Frankly, I don't know that we'd do such a good job of running this place. Even if, by some miracle, we put a person in office who actually delivered on a promise to take care of us, do we think he or she could really do it? Will everyone's needs--or better, desires--be met? If Person A wants "this", and Person B demands "that", how in the world can "the people" run the nation? There is too much dissension, too much selfishness, too much unintelligent drivel out there. Before you know it, "the people" have paralyzed the nation.

Maybe we'd be better off if the real authority didn't lie in the hands of any person whatsoever. Hey, there's a novel concept...