When you grow up in Flint, you learn early that the people in charge always have a different set of rules for themselves than they do for the people they claim to represent.
You watch these things—these self-inflicted spectacles in Clacton—and you realize that politics has become less about governance and more about performance art. It is exhausting, really.
You read about it, and you think, "This has got to be satire." But when I look at the reporting—at abcnews.com detailing this special election in Clacton-on-Sea, or reading…
The mechanics of modern Western politics have become a performance art, where the greatest political capital is not accrued through policy wins but through sheer theatrical endurance.