We pay taxes, and politicians are elected to figure out how to manage the tax money, and the country is just about bankrupt.

But over and over, we are told that that the real issue is sex.

In terms of politics, this generally takes the form of the culture war. One party says sex is good, so do it! The other party says sex is bad, so be celibate! Both parties are populated by people who have sex, which means that the people who say on the side of sex tend to come out ahead of the people who say they're against it. Everything goes according to stereotype.

And even when we're on the verge of bankruptcy, it's still about sex. By mutual consent of both parties.

It's easy to see why they do this. What's harder to understand is how they get away with it.

You'd almost thing the sex scam was working.