Often, we look at the activities of politicians and we fail to understand what they're doing, or why they're doing it, or both. The politicians themselves would generally like you to believe they're playing 4-dimensional chess.

But that's definitely not it. After many decades of observation, I've learned that what is actually going on is:

The game is checkers.

Angry checkers.

Being played by monkeys.

On a Go board.

With poop.