Nevertheless, every four years this phony façade persists that someone's listening to the voice of the people, that this is a Constitutional Republic where someone, somewhere cares about who We the People want to run things even though we're to the point that a scientific study which considered 20 years of data showed that it simply isn't true.

We stopped in the middle of the night in nowhere New Mexico on a road trip a few weeks ago and found this bizarre, creepy rest stop to be a lot like voting for president in America every four years.

The facilities were filthy. The windows had wire grids on them, like the kind you'd expect to find in a mental facility where they are worried people might try to escape. Everything smelled. The toilet seats were missing. Scary people were hanging out in the shadows. It's the kind of place your mom warned you as a kid never to go to, especially after dark.