"It Isn't So Much That We Don't Know WHAT It Is As It Is We Don't Know What To DO About It..."

Old saying.

"Dying is easy...comedy is hard."

New saying.

"Politics is easy...comedy is hard."

While thousands of hours and oceans of ink are used up by print, TV, radio and Internet sources bouncing a thousand badminton birdies of opinion and analysis back and forth across a thousand badminton nets separating the blue nation and the red nation, the essential premise of national politics as it is, and has always been, practiced in America is sufficiently simple as to be easily explainable to anyone.

In fact, it can be done in less steps than it takes to achieve six degrees of Kevin Bacon.

i.e...

1. Congress is made up of people we choose to spend the money we give them to run the country.
2. People who wish to be chosen for the job promise us they will do a better job spending the money than the people who already have the job.
3. We believe, or do not believe, either the current officeholder or the one promising to do a better job
4. Each four/six years, we make a choice as to who we believe.
5. Once chosen, the same(new) officeholder continues/begins to spend our money on their, and not our, interests.

Any questions?

Thought not.