School Politics

Politics.  Hmm well I think it's wonderful that people feel the need to elect leaders to "unite" and "guide" our country in a way that is consistent with the voice of all its citizens, but lets just be real for a second.  Politicians are people, and people are greedy.  It really comes down to a simple equation of fundamentally two truths: even though I don't like politics (X), you have to acknowledge that they are essential in a democracy (Y), unless you want to be ruled by a dictator with a crazy name who raises taxes and rounds up all the red headed people and deems them unclean you must acknowledge the following equation:

If X^2 + Y^2 = 15, and X * Y = 5, what is X + Y?

Don't know? I'll tell you.  The answer is chaos.  Utter chaos. 

School politics, what a great and totally relevant thing.  A couple students who want to be able to put that they were student body president have a big popularity contest and whoever offends less people and knows more people will win.  Majority of the time someone gets elected that actually tires to make a change but more times than not someone gets in who did it as a dare and does absolutely nothing with his position and almost gets kicked out of office because they show up to a school dance drunk.  And I'm not suggesting a certain person, of course. 

Politics themselves are so incredibly pointless at an international level, that having elections at the high school level is just a mockery of what democracy stands for.