I found this yesterday in my quest to understand why politically motivated types are usually from the low end of the gene pool as Brian so eloquently put it and I guess we're not the first generation to realize that. Please read.

Political Truisms

>> Suppose we were idiots...Then suppose we were members of
>> Congress....But then I repeat myself.
>> -Mark Twain
>>
>> I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is
>> like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the
>> handle.
>> -Winston Churchill
>>
>> A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
>> support of Paul.
>> -George Bernard Shaw
>>
>> Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
>> on what to have for dinner.
>> -James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
>>
>> Foreign aid must be defined as a transfer of money from poor people
>> in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
>> -Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown
>> University
>>
>> Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car
>> keys to teenage boys.
>> -P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
>>
>> Government's view.....
>>
>> If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it can't
>> move, subsidize it.
>> -Ronald Reagan (1986)
>>
>> I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
>> -Will Rogers
>>
>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
>> politics won't take an interest in you!
>> -Pericles (430 B.C.)
>>
>> No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
>> session.
>> -Mark Twain (1866)
>>
>> Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
>> -Unknown
>>
>> The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy
>> appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
>> -Ronald Reagan
>>
>> The inherent "vice" of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
>> blessings.
>> The inherent "blessing" of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
>> -Winston Churchill
>>
>> The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
>> taxidermist leaves the skin.
>> -Mark Twain
>>
>> The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
>> fill the world with fools.
>> -Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
>>
>> There is no distinctly Native American criminal class....save Congress.
>> -Mark Twain
>>
>> What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
>> -Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
>>
>> A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
>> enough to take everything you have.
>> -Thomas Jefferson (1771)

I assume that finding the cure for political mentality is as difficult as finding the cure to cancer. I feel like a worm in a fire ant hill.