At it's core, is an article about the structure of political behavior. I know, excitement abounds, but I'm writing it because too many people on all sides of our political spectrum seem not to understand some of the rules of the game they're playing; They argue over everything wrong with United States politics without ever examining the underlying structure in any detail. Politics is a high stakes game. If you think back to when you first learned of Euchre or Monopoly, the first thing you asked when introduced to it was "What's the rules?" I mean how can you possibly play any game without an understanding of the foundation of how it's played. In politics, however, people grasp only the most basic aspects of the system and then pretend they know everything. They argue over the outcomes of whether we should be on Chance or Community Chest without ever learning how many dice to roll or what the turn order is. Structure, to me, is everything. I've alwa
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