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Has anyone else noticed how boring politics has become?  I don’t mean to imply that nothing is happening—I mean, we had a Speaker of the House fired for the first time in American history a couple of months ago—but it all seems so… dull.

If everything was hunky-dory, it would be fine for politics to be boring.  Indeed, it would be great—we want to live in a world where the issues that face us are so miniscule, we can elect boring people to administer boring, predictable law and order.

But the opposite is the case.  Everything sucks.  Our government is wildly oppressive.  Our institutions can’t pave the roads adequately, much less govern the country.  People aren’t allowed to say anything reasonable in public without losing their jobs.  Inflation is through the roof.  Wages are stagnant.  China owns everything.  Our leaders want to drag us into wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East that involve ancient clans battling over ancient grievances.  Peaceful protestors—actual ones, not progressives robbing their local Wendy’s—are in federal prison without trial because they were invited to walk through the Capitol Building.

In spite of all of that, politics is boring.  I think I know why.

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