Frank ZappaPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. This is a trivial statement meant only to provide a laugh, but it has a grain of truth. With so much time spent watching and listening to politicians, we have come to accept them as the “entertainers” of our world. It is also true that even though there are people who use their influence for good, the problem with all the politics on television, in movies, and on the Internet is that they can become tedious. The same holds true for all the scandals, scandals whose timing must be flawless because if they were not timed perfectly, they would not make sense.
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