Everything I know of Politics I learned from my fortune cookie
Last night we had Chinese for dinner. The fortunes are often interesting and insightful, last nights made me understand politics in its entirity.
Attitude is more important than facts.
Now I understand why Americans love spending all their time aghast at the antics of politicians who never should have been elected in the first place. It is as though Hollywood just isn't enough. "Snakes on a Plane", is good entertainment, but a local politician says that homosexuality is "as natural as pedophilia." That's GREAT entertainment. All this time I've been shaking my head wondering how folks who do and say such stupid things are elected over and over again. I've missed the point. The point is, people WANT guys in office to do and say idiotic things, shoot lawyers, and bastardize the American English language. It is entertainment!
Yes, good politicians exist and they work hard to do good works, and we can't name any of them, because they aren't singing and dancing in the lime light. They are in the trenches doing good works day in and day out.
So I suppose, based on this enlightenment, the greatest compliament you can lay on a politician is to say to them, "Who?" when they introduce themselves. If we've never heard of them, they must not suck.
