The only folks who don’t enter politics solely to make money are those with money. These get into the game to make more money. Preelection, the candidates, lying before they get to stealing, present a field as well groomed and false as the horses approaching the starting gate. Yet we, assured of the worth of their blather, pick our favorite as if the race were fair—and then complain at our loss with the assurance that the thing was fixed.
