The Founding Fathers were idiots.

So you either celebrated on Tuesday or Wednesday. If you started on Tuesday night, you started late and don't mind popping the first top around 1am. If you waited til Wednesday, you're over-cautious and were probably genuinely afraid that the Democrats might lose the Senate. If you're the latter, you also don't understand politics.

It's been really popular to bash Republicans since President Bush took office. It's the easier thing to choose when coming up with counter-policy or studying political climates are your other options. At the end of it all, humans are lazy creatures. Without having to chase down our dinner everyday, we've suffered the horror of sitting at the top of the food chain. Instead of doing earnest research about anything in politics, we rely on campaign ads the same way we rely on commercials to tell us the truth about their products. And if the race isn't deemed "important" by the news media, we close our eyes and choose.

But that's actually not the problem.

A nation of idiots - the word that was originally used to describe uninformed voters - is not that bad. In fact, we really have no choice but to be uninformed. After years of being lazy, we now don't have the option to educate ourselves properly on the issues. And even the most intelligent voter is gambling - campaign promises often go unfulfilled.

Which brings me to the point about the Founding Fathers. For all their apotheosis, they were actually fairly stupid. We tend to revel in the genius of the democracy they invented while shoving its failures under the rug. Their biggest failure is to blame for the current (and past) political climate.

They assumed that power wouldn't be attractive.

That's right. For all their paranoia about strong central leadership, they attempted to make the jobs of governance as terrible as possible to create a vetting process that would make power-hungry men shy away. Low paying, difficult travel schedules, achingly boring meetings. They thought of everything - except that after you dress up power in rags, it's still power.

I think they overlooked this possibility because they were pompous, loudspeaking, power-hungry asses themselves. They were the kids in high school on the debate team that would argue anything at the drop of the hat. They were the well-to-do, respected men who fought to depose the very government where they made their riches. They weren't oppressed - for all the belly-aching of taxation, they were paying fewer taxes than English citizens in the UK. The one thing that these men couldn't have, is power. And they wanted it.

So today, since they didn't think about power being attractive, politicians run - and make no mistake of it - for themselves. Being in government at that level is great. They take a pay cut usually and make up for it in contacts. They earn prestige and air time on the news. Most of all, they make the decisions that run our lives.

Government attracts the sleaziest of our world - the people that hide it behind designer suits. We gasp when news like Mark Foley's and Tom Delay's comes out, never realizing that there are far worse people sitting in the chairs of power in DC. It's just a matter of being caught.

So why don't you understand politics if you partied on Wednesday? Because it doesn't matter who is running the government. Both parties are full of egoists running for power instead of constituents. Instead of diverting attention away from important issues with gay bashing and flag burning, we'll hear about environmentalism and animal rights. Plus, the Senate is split right down the middle, a position of stalemate, not power. The Democrats didn't take the Senate. They tied - assuming that the independents vote with Democrats, they still won't have a hard enough majority to do much.

I'll just sit here twiddling my thumbs until people get fed up with Democrats again and beg for Republicans instead of realizing that their all on the same team.