Promises vs. Reality

When you stick a shiv in your ally's ribs.

The members of our political class promise a lot of things.

In some ways, they combine two attributes that inevitably produce disaster when mixed together.

1) An overweening desire to tell others what to do.

2) A complete and utter lack of wisdom.

These two attributes combine in the same way that nitric acid and glycerin combine, and to similar effect.