Are they all liars?
Maybe not, but the majority of the successful ones are.But that's our fault. We only vote for liars.
Well, not our fault exactly, it's in our programming. I watched this documentary on TLC years ago where they proved that the best leaders are the best liars. They took a class of five-year-olds and gave them something terrible tasting to drink. Then they sent the kids one by one into a room with a couple of interviewers and instructed the kids to tell the interviewers that the drink tasted good.
The kids who could, after nearly choking on that terrible drink, look the interviewers in the eye and say it was great were the outgoing leaders of the classroom.
One girl broke down and couldn't lie at all. When they showed a video of free play in the Kindergarten classroom, she was the one hiding under a table.
But the fact that liars are outgoing people who tend to be leaders still doesn't completely explain why we vote for them.
George Bush I was constantly ridiculed for saying "Read my lips, no new taxes," during his campaign, then raising taxes once he was elected, but how would we react if someone said, "Look, I want to be the President of the United States, not the Wizard of Oz; if you folks want the government to do stuff, you're going to have to cough up some dough!"?
So our natural inclination to elect the people who are the best at telling us what we want to hear (while openly doing the exact opposite) has gotten us into quite a pickle. We're stuck with a president we don't want, in a war we don't want, and we've been stripped of basic rights that have been in place since the Magna Carta.
Well I have a solution, and you're not going to like it, but hear me out.
We need a president with no strings attached (you know, lobbyists, donors, etc.) right? Under our current system, that is absolutely impossible. So I propose that we draw the next president randomly out of a hat!
(Not an actual hat, of course, but you get my point.)
We take every American citizen who meets the requirements for age, health, IQ, and education, and we put their names in a giant swirling drum. Then we have a random, blind-folded six-year-old pull out the names of our next President and VP!
Problem solved.
At the end of their four-year term, we could vote to keep them for another four years or draw from the hat again.
The next thing we'd have to do is put term limits on high-level bureaucratic positions. These people can have their jobs for decades and no one even gets to vote on them.
For my next post, I have a great idea that even fewer people will like.
Everyone has their own idea of what art is, and few mainstream art connoisseurs would consider graffiti art, but Banksy's art has been featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, and American Museum of Natural History... 
Banksy's art speaks for itself; his brilliant use of irony, his cutting social and political satire, and most of all, his unwavering commitment to nonconformity (which is being seriously threatened by his growing status as a beloved British icon).
But I'm thinking about walls and what he does with them.
He forces us to notice the walls we ignore.
Most interesting, was his trip to Palestine. 
416 miles of wall, 26 feet tall.
Cutting Palestinians off from their jobs, schools, and family members.
His work there was met with some opposition.
He also received criticism from a few Palestinians who thought it was wrong to make something beautiful out of such a terrible and oppressive wall.
I wonder if Banksy will make his way to Baghdad.
Long live the bleeding-hearts and artists!
Are they a symbol of power,
Do they solve our problems,
or create new ones?
Why do we continue to build walls?
And if walls are good, why do we celebrate when we tear them down?
Walls are barriers, containers of human beings.
Walls are symbols; they send a message to the people being contained.
But sometimes,
just sometimes,
they stand between us and the desire to move on and forget.
They stretch out into the distance as a physical measure of the magnitude of an event.
Why do we continue to build walls?
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