If I hear one more moron talking head talk about "criminalization of politics" I am going to lose it. If one of us poor plebians goes against a mandate of the state, we are criminals. If a politician shows himself or herself to be completely crooked and corrupt and criminal, well then someone must be "criminalizing politics."

Guess what? All politicians are criminals. All politics is criminal. What else should we call it when these people steal huge amounts of money from people, coerce them, invade countries, kill tens of thousands of innocent people, and every other sort of evil that is the business of politicians? We should push for real criminalization of politics, as in actually holding politicians to the same moral standards of everyone else. As in not pretending like theft is not theft if some big guy we call government does it.

(Hat-tip to Crooks and Liars)