The Politics of Politics

My economist friends who went to washington worked on the council of economic advisers. They go there thinking they're going to give economic advice to the administration, and very quickly they realize how political things are. Everyone traffics in perception in politics, and no one cares about the substance or the reality. If you do that for long enough, you wind up with a very dispirited, despondent, angry, restive population. That is a very powerful story, steve. And i think that some up dece in a nutshell at this point.