Thanks for proving my point. You won't accept good sense and the truth even when it comes from a friend.
See Libs agrees with you on all those things you mentioned, but he's still got really good judgement in many areas. Sadly, you don't. He's also well read and well informed. Sadly, you aren't.
Never said that politics was all there is to life, so you're barking up the wrong tree there. But as big and as intrusive as we have allowed government to get, politics is a big deal. Hey, I'm the first one to wish that the government was far smaller and then we could afford to ignore politics. We'd all be much happier, but that ain't the way it is.
As usual, you zig when you should zag and vice versa!