Politicians 101

 Politicians lie. 

 They tell whatever lie they need to support their own selfish interests. 

 They are venal, interested only in humiliation. 

 For example, they like money because it can humiliate other politicians who have less money. They like sex because the politician can brag about buying sex when the other guy has to do without.

 Because they're interested in humiliation, mere greed is a mere means. The end is humiliating their opponents. Their political rivals have the exact same set of desires, but a competing resource base with which to buy humiliation. 

 For example, it is not hard to make both the countryside and the cities richer at the same time. It's called production and trade. However, politicians are actively against anything which makes their rivals richer, even if it has no effect on them personally. Keep in mind that destruction is cheaper than creation. Both countryside politicians and city politicians try to buy creation for their own base and destruction for the other side, but destruction is cheaper. They successfully buy far more destruction than creation, and the result is the society as a whole loses.

 The correct thing for a society to do is ostracize the politicians. Let them keep whatever they've seized, but let them destroy each other, as they will do if nobody props them up. Once they wipe themselves out, re-expand into the empty space, retaining the strict anti-politician laws. 

 What in fact happens is everyone, as if in a drug-fuelled frenzy, eyes dialated, nobody home, joins in the politicking. 

  Everyone on twitter is a politician. They're just lying. If they're not lying, it's merely a coincidence. The truth happens to align with the lie they were going to tell anyway. If it associates truth with politicians, so much the worse for poor truth. 

 Democracy is about dragging everyone into politics, doing the exact opposite of outlawing it. 

 Politicians lie. They get into the habit of lying, and aren't trustworthy even to each other. If, in an orgy of violence, the city destroys the countryside, the city politicians will immediately fracture into fractions, so they can have someone new to humiliate. At any time a politician can't attack some distant politician, they will immediately attack a close politician. They are genuine, physiological, literal addicts. They cannot help themselves. 

 Let me emphasize; it's not merely that they serve their own interests. They are only attracted to serving their interests at your expense. If it doesn't cost you anything, they find it repulsive.

 There is no such thing as a politician with principles, any more than heroin addicts have meaningful principles. If it gets them the hit, they do it. That is, unless you count [injecting heroin] as a principle. Likewise, politicians are very very principled about [kto kovo]. They hate, they loathe, the win-win.

 If you want to know why a politician is jonesing for this thing or that thing, follow the money. Works 100% of the time. 200% of the time. They know this too, which is why they haven't already told you how they get paid. Please note that if you see a christian who is not a politician, they are christianing wrong. Testable: you can correct them if you like. They will appreciate you setting them on the proper path of addiction. Also true of buddhists, hindus, etc etc. Any religion that shows up in wikipedia is merely a political group, like a reverse alcoholics anonymous. Anti-anonymous, and trying to get you in as deep as possible. Indeed, the reason christians came up with AA is because they don't like it when booze competes for the addiction slot.

 Oh hey I just figured out why schedule 1 drugs are illegal. The world is not a mysterious place. 

 Politicians like taxes, as opposed to trade, precisely because taxes are traitorous. Deviant, defective. Farmers could get more money by selling a better product, but to a politician, it is dramatically preferable to get more money by selling a worse product and taking tax dollars instead. Thus automatically creates competing interests, so they can humiliate the competitor. The farm bill takes tax dollars from the city, from corporations, and gives it to the countryside. Various industry [protections] and [unions] take wealth from the city and give it to factories. Hence, farms have to be shut down. Hence, factories have to be offshored. So that the political rivals in universities or whatever can get that sweet sweet hit of heroin. Or literally cocaine sometimes.

 

 

 The worst part is the lying is all completely pointless. You can sort of see a point in academic debates because it can make unaffiliated undergrads join your lab instead of your rival's. In politics, self-absorbed-interest is determined by circumstances. You can't lie so hard a city-dweller thinks they live on a farm and get paid for vegetables. You can't lie so hard a crime-and-welfare wokist thinks they work in a factory. You can't lie so hard an IRS agent doesn't know they can embezzle more money if there are more residents. Paul Fussel and Shakespeare mention this. Much sound and fury, signifying nothing. Tremendous struggle for status, with not a single shred of gain to show for it; net worth is a genetic trait.

 The lying poisons the well, uglifies the tellers, and has no purpose beyond these negative side effects. Or rather, the hideous side-effects are the point. Homo sapiens is truly revolting.

 Even those undergrads are worthless. If they can't be tricked, they join the highest-status or richest lab they can find, regardless of debates. If a debate sways them, they are gullible morons, easily a net burden on your lab. 

 Debates could have a point. First it's necessary to be rid of the politicians.