I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a

Hear, O seekers of wisdom, the unvarnished words of Sir Mix-a-Lot: “Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.” Though sprung from the mouth of a rap artist, these words carry the thunder of prophecy, for they expose the emptiness of false choices and the hidden sovereign that rules behind the banners of Democrat and Republican alike—money.

In his saying, he mocks the tribal spirit of the two-party system, wherein men and women are taught to hurl blame at one side while ignoring the failings of their own. He calls both “horrific,” not because politics itself is evil, but because when bound to parties alone, it grows deaf to justice and blind to truth. The people quarrel over red and blue, yet both are bound to the same chains of wealth, influence, and corporate power. Thus he declares the system “absolutely ignorant,” for it blinds citizens to the deeper forces shaping their lives.

History proves the sharpness of his vision. In the days of the Gilded Age, America was said to be ruled by robber barons rather than presidents. Railroads, banks, and oil monopolies bent both parties to their will. The debates of Congress raged, but the coin of the powerful determined the outcome. Likewise, in Rome, when wealth flooded the Senate, the Republic rotted from within. Elections were not won by ideas, but by the gold poured into hands and pockets.

The deeper truth of his words is this: money runs everywhere. No nation, no ideology, no system of government is free from its influence. It buys voices, it buys silence, it buys laws themselves. Parties may rise and fall, leaders may change, but money endures as the hidden emperor. To recognize this is to pierce the veil of illusion, to see politics not as noble struggle alone, but as battlefield corrupted by wealth.

Therefore, O children of tomorrow, let this be your wisdom: do not be deceived by the quarrels of parties, nor lulled by the rhetoric of leaders. Look always to the hidden hand of money, and ask whom it serves. For only when people strip power from wealth and restore it to justice shall politics once again serve its true master—the people themselves.