So true about butchering.  Fact is that virtually all politicians are butchers not by trade, but instead, by default.  We vote for surgeons but get butchers instead.  They're commonly substantively ignorant, incorrigible, and narcissistic.  Even smart people after being elected inevitably become dumb.  I wonder whether politics isn't a disease?  The medical industry after great effort successfully got diabetes approved as a disease, so why not then politics?  Can you imagine the revenues the medical industry could reap?