A Political Dictionary

            Congress: an entity that underfunds important things and then blames the negative consequences on others.

            Conspiracy:  an accusatory fiction created (for their own benefit) by manipulative people with the purpose of spreading hatred.

            Despot:  a cruel foreign leader, supported by United States foreign policy for decades, and then abandoned when the embarrassment becomes too great.

Elections:  events whose outcomes mean little if you know the right obstructionist tactics to use in congress.

            Foreign Policy:  a mistake that costs thousands of lives.

            Government:  what we accomplish together that we would be unable or unwilling to do separately.

Hatred:  the result of emotional abuse by zealots and bigots, encouraged in impressionable people.

            Headwaters:  the insensate brain sweat that passes for rational thought in some interest groups seeking to benefit by imposing their agenda(s) on others.

Hearing:  a public gathering held by a member of congress or other prosecutor, that parades like-minded witnesses to promote a conspiracy.

            Legislation:  a bill passed by congress (containing unrelated stuff that shouldn’t be there) whose negative consequences are known in advance, and later decried as unforeseeable.

            Majority:  a source of political power in America until the late twentieth century.

            Political Party:  a source of obstinance.

Politician:  an obstinate person who spends millions to get elected, disappoints voters and is less popular than cock roaches.

            Syria:  people given to headwaters believe the world is flat there, despite its complexities.

            War:  a violent act whose negative consequences almost always outweigh its stated objectives.