Opinion: Politics is a religion. There are two different belief systems with a few fringe denominated subsets of beliefs. All parties claim to have a "truth" that a group of people believe in. The people we vote to represent us are like prophets who preach to the people who agree with them, and condemn those who disagree. Every year we make an offering, in the form of taxes, to a seemingly omnipresent government in hopes that we did good last year and our money will be given back to us if this "deity" approves that we did okay. And if we make too much money they will always take some of your money for themselves to use for "governmental" purposes. Our ambassadors are like today's missionaries, spreading the message of democracy. If there is a type of government that our leaders say doesn't hold up to the type of government we have, they propagate that government type as something bad and the masses of the two belief systems demonize that "unfavorable" government type. Then we end up going to war (crusade) with this other government so that we can spread our idea of leadership. We chose a team among these ideologies, and we rarely change. How can we rule the people when every 4 years there a war to elect a leader that only one of the parties agrees with? If I think your wrong, and you think I am wrong, how can either of us be right? Thats means we are both wrong, and we need to get together and come up with a set of rules that we all agree with.