Where do you start talking about American politics?Where do you end?  You can enter and exit at any point in the vacuum of the space-time continuum like a neutrino, heard by nobody and affecting nothing.  The great wasteland of American politics in the 21st century is that way because of the polarized division of everything into two opposite parties. It is an extreme polarization because both parties and all of the politicians in them keep discovering that they can say and do anything and still get elected by their party. Given this off-the-rails behavior, the two parties have arbitrarily occupied the two most vapid niches that any political party in history has ever occupied. They are:   Anti-society (Republicans) Pro-society (Democrats)   Furthermore, nothing much changes no matter which party has the majority, since they hold everything in deadlock. Other countries stand in amazement at the state of the US, but they have to understand one crucial thing: it's all talk.  We just…