[BwanaNdege]

Wow, just WOW!

Understand that, plus H.L. Mencken’s quote and you understand current politics.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H. L. Mencken

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/hlmencke101109.html#iHXw2V7hMjVg6cps.99

I would probably add Rush’s euphemism of “low-information voter” plus:

Lord Acton: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

And finally, Alexis de Tocqueville: “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

There is your college level course in Political Science.

For a Graduate Level course, include:

“But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men.” John 2:24

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” Matt 10:16

[Slings and Arrows]

Miss Rand understood the looter mentality.

[Pining_4_TX]

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” ~ H.L. Mencken