On politics

I have a theory that about 15% of people exist on each end of the political spectrum (30% total). The remaining 70% in the middle are composed of the following:

- 20% The truly uninformed; those who have the ability to think for themselves, but no knowledge of what is going on. Another word for these people is; "naive".

- 40% The easily gulled; Translated: idiots. Those who will believe anything so long as it sounds good.

- 10% The apathetic; those who have become so utterly jaded that they are simply willing to let the world destroy itself around them.

Politicians align themselves with one end of the political spectrum, then use whatever means they have at their disposal to draw those in the middle to their side. Unfortunately, it seems that the majority of those in the middle comprise the first two categories. Since the apathetic aren't going to vote anyway, or will vote for a third party, all a politician needs to do is keep the naive uninformed, and trick the idiots into voting for them. So in a nutshell, a political contest is decided primarily by how many idiots are convinced to vote for either side.

**Please note that the above is intended to be entirely humorous and the statistics given have no guarantee of accuracy, nor was that the point.**