As an aside alephnerd, I really enjoy your comments because you actually think about politics as a game with objectives, strategies, and tactics. The way the ga

As an aside alephnerd, I really enjoy your comments because you actually think about politics as a game with objectives, strategies, and tactics. The way the game is actually played, not the way the kid who took the Political Compass Online Test and played Civ thinks politics should be. Not some sort of moral ideological sounding board. HN and a lot of online fora these days are filled with moralistic shouting and arguments.