It's difficult to speak to someone who has a closed mind. Charles Spencer has lost friends to abject ignorance, and taken tons of abuse at the hands of the ill-informed, but believes that if you can educate one mind at a time than eventually we can lift the veil of blindness that several decades of mis-direction, fake education and a dishonest media have helped perpetrate. This is a tutorial, a guide, a paper in the noble tradition of Thomas Paine : put together in the hopes that it will empower you to not feel so alone in the suddenly ridiculous and dangerous world of politics.