You wouldn’t know it from watching the tabloid-ready circus that passes for a debate these days, but politics is serious business.
Politicians lie, cheat, and frequently contradict themselves — all in the name of winning. Don’t listen to your mother; any politician will tell you that it is whether you win or lose, and — sorry to say — it doesn’t matter how you play the game.
You know those kids in school, the really annoying ones who whine to the professor after class because they’re quite sure their Lacanian analysis of Harry Potter deserved a solid A, not an A-minus? There’s a name for them: grade grubbers.
Presidential candidates are just like those Type A students — only it’s votes that they’re after, not grades. And — to get those votes — they will do anything from color coding their lecture notes to sleeping with the professor.
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