I don't make everything political. It already is.

I've followed politics for my entire adult life, and it started in my youth. But I tend to turn conversations to politics not because I love politics, which people mistakenly assume. Let me explain.

It’s true that I’ve followed politics more deeply than most people for decades. Most people despise politics because it always smacks of hidden agendas and self service. Yet I’ve always believed that it is my duty to know as much as I can about what’s going on in America, because America purports to be self-governing. But we all know that lying politicians frequently do NOT govern in the best interest of their electorate, but often just protect their own self-interest. And they do this by lining their own pockets and the pockets of their allies.

While other people tune out political news thinking it’s all just “party politics,” or ideological conversations that smack of “left vs. right,” or geopolitics (questions of which countries should exist and where should their borders be, or which wars should be fought), I often read up on (and talk about) the historical and ideological context of the situation at hand. And therefore, people mistakenly think that “Kevin loves politics.”