Life is much easier when other people have already done the work for you, and I can simply quote them.*

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I though you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is.""So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn’t occur to them," said Ford. "They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"**
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course.""But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in…."
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, pp. 596-597.

So, to sum up, "Our lizards are better than their lizards."***

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* Which also allows for use of myriad footnotes, which ad a scholarly feel if not actual erudition to my posts, but since we’re ruled by lizards, chances are that scholarly feel is as good as erudition.
**Italics are still banned in the EPU b/c they lean to the right, not the left, but out of courtesy to the author, special dispensation was granted for their use in this post.
*** And they are ALL lizards. "How can that be, EPU?" Because anyone who isn’t a lizard wouldn’t want to be a politician. Lizards are the most narcissistic creatures on the planet – all that preening in the Sun being just one example of their insatiable love of self – the calling of politics comes naturally, as does the lizard’s unfailing belief in his own lizardian unfailability. Have you ever heard a lizard or a politician apologize? Be introspective? I don’t think so.
**** This is a footnote footnoting nothing, other than to answer the question "but what about the politicians we ‘like,’ are they lizards too?" They are. Coming next week – a new series – The Villager, taken from the television series "The Saint" (and with major props to the Monty Python skit "It’s the Bishop, get’im Devious"), in which each week The Villager saves teh Village from unserious masses. Tune in!!!@@#!@#~!!!!