Is politics an inherently easy subject?

[phk]

Yes or No.

[tpfkaw]

For me.

[Capitan Zapp Brannigan]

For people who are smart, yes.

[Dgov]

You mean the logic behind the massive bills and legislative amendments that pass through Congress daily?  In that case, no, as those are incredibly complicated games of give-and-take that's almost impossible to unwind.

You mean in elections?  Yes.  It's easy--you're always right, and everyone who disagrees with you is a stupid, ignorant hack. 

[Beet]

Yes.

But it varies depending on how deep you want to go, like anything. If you're actually trying to predict things, then it's much harder than physics.

[fezzyfestoon]

Yeah, in a way.  But most people who are into it don't really get it.

[You kip if you want to...]

Yes, for me. It annoys me how mindless some people in my Politics class in college actually are about the subject they're studying...

[Torie]

No. It seems easy, but like so many things, the more you know, the less easy it gets. And so much out there is spam, and thus there is a separating the wheat from the chaff matter to boot. It is not as if the field attracts the best and the brightest, because  it clearly does not. I learned that one long ago.

[Ogre Mage]

At a basic level I think it is simple -- you find representatives who support your interests and views and in return you support them.  But the details of this can get very complex.

[Zarn]

If it was, people like Obama and Bush 43 would have never been president.

[Bacon King]

Yes, because no matter your opinion, you're always right!

[angus]

Yes or No.

No.

I mean, it's easy enough to read someone's analysis of the way the senate acted as it did in some long-forgotten time and say, "oh, yeah, that makes sense."  But the actual mechanisms behind the process by which decisions are made, even by rather small groups, is, to me, a bit mystifying. 

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

For me, I'd say yes.