Have you complained about the government lately?

It's easy to get started. Take any conversation with nearly anyone you know or meet and bring up politics. Soon, you'll find somebody talking about what annoys them in our government.

There are the obvious hot button issues like taxes (particularly this time of year), immigration, and of course elections. Elections are always fun. Everybody knows who would do the best job but nobody agrees who it is. In most cases, we don't have a clue what the people we promote would even try to get accomplished if they were elected.

In the cases where you're lucky enough to vote for somebody that gets elected, it's time for the long term disappointment. Those who vote for a losing candidate at least get their disappointment over with on election day. They are then given the opportunity to complain about how it would have been different if their candidate had won. However, the "winner" is left with the bitter taste of their candidates failure.

Well, at least their perceived failure. In reality, we all know that nothing is going to change, at least not like the pre-election hype would lead us to believe. Eventually we're left with empty promises and the same old situation we had with the last guy.

So yeah, it's great to get excited about your election when you're 18 and you think the votes change the world. But after a couple elections and a little overview of political history it becomes increasingly clear that you just performed in another episode of "Punk'd" starring your candidate.