El Gringo

Ok, rather than just having a rant section about politics en masse, I named this section “Nonsense Politics” to talk about what I see as some of the more ludicrous aspects of politics.  I do believe that a truly sincere political system does have some important function in society to help keep things in check (humans, by nature, do need keeping in check) but there are so many aspects of it that are focussed around genuine lies, deceit, cruelty, greed and domination, etc.  Need I go on?  If the political systems of the world were really as sincere as they make out to be I think it would make such a huge difference to our existence.  Is it unreasonable to strive for this?

You may find a lot of the discussions in here focus on Foreign Policy and the likes of the issues going on in the Middle East but I believe these are probably some of the more significant areas going on right now and we should be concerned and asking the truly hard questions.