Why?

Dammit, why do I read political news? Honestly, 90% of it is almost guaranteed to raise my blood pressure and make me want to move to Canada.
I try, as a rule, not to rant too much about politics in my blog, but I really feel the need to shake my head ruefully in a public way. I mean, come on – a 2002 column by Hunter S. Thompson I read tonight made me go “right ON! YEAH!” more than any other thing I’ve read about politics in a couple of years.
He called us a nation of whores, compared Bush to Nixon (although he admitted that was an insult to Nixon), and used other similarly inflammatory rhetoric.
*sigh*
I’ll say this for Bush: he knows what to say to make stupid people get behind him. I wish that there were fewer stupid people in this great nation of ours.