    Politics V. Policy  By Joshua Sager  In recent years, the
political climate has been more akin to a spectator sport than a
legitimate method of instituting good policy. People are more
interested in sound bites and political propaganda than the
actual policy which is going to be passed and the media has been
going right along with it. Tabloid politics such as the Weiner
scandal and the antics of the Palins sells better than less
interesting things; things like pointing out that the rich are
robbing us blind and then using our own money to buy our
politicians.  Let’s face it, watching dumb people make fools of
themselves is good TV (See: reality/game shows, sitcoms, etc.),
but focusing all political media on the next ignorant thing to
pop out of the mouth of Bachmann/Palin/Perry/ to the exclusion
of actual news will be the death sentence of our democracy.
Politics is not a reality show, and at some point we will need
to actually discuss policy, rather that the antics of the
political personalities.    The