Why the majority of politicians are jokes

[overgrowthegovt]

Socialists are all idiots...

I don't think you could argue socialists are any more idiotic than the hardcore laissez-faire types. I think the difference is that the former are actually interested in an economically egalitarian land, while the latters' interest lies primarily in seeing just how little they can pay their Third World workers, and just how many tax breaks or corporate welfare they can squeeze out of the government.

Anyway, I remember reading something in "Stranger in a Strange Land" about how politicians reflect the populace and therefore just as self-serving and custom-bound.