I've become extremely disillusioned with US Politics and I find it hard to not be apathetic about it no matter how much I don't want to be. It seems like everyone treats it as a big game. Just look at the landscape and how its implemented. Talking heads providing endless commentary, the entire country being broken into teams, people taking sides and playing favorites, presidential elections have more in common with American Idol than with actual political elections, politicians being more concerned with being the "winner", or at least not being the "loser", than doing what's right (even when "right" is defined by their own beliefs). I'm sure its always been like this in some way but it feels like it just gets worse every election cycle.