Reasons Why I Don't Understand Politics #728 - Ames, Iowa

This picture has nothing to do with this post, but I find the ridiculousness of it to be hilarious.

Every political post comes with a discliamer: I don't really understand everything there is about politics. It's grown into too big of a system that it can't work itself out right. The best thing I've heard about politics is what Barry said this week: "There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics." Makes the most sense in the world. But how do we fix this? Too damn late.

Anyways, this anti-politics commentary revolves around how candidates are determined to run for the elections (which is only 15 months away). From what I understand, the Republicans have a primary/caucus in Ames, Iowa that helps weed out some of the potentials from the idiots (Viva Ron Paul!).

How, how, HOW, can our potential next president be partially determined by a small town, population 60,000? What does that really show us? How does that determine what the rest of the country thinks? Now believe me, I don't want us to have national primary after national primary after primary to help figure out who's real and who's not.

There's no reasonable way for this to be done. The system has become so large and convoluted that it doesn't make sense. Ames, Iowa determines the future of our country, as far as which Republican will move to the next phase of the election - which leads to more caucuses and primaries and bogus run arounds.

Meanwhile, can we figure out how to fix the economy and unemployment rate? It'd be helpful!