Chapter one reading and questions

1.)  How does this book know exactly what I am thinking in these first lines? How many people vote for library elections in Havertown?
2.)  Groucho Marx's quote is the most harsh anti-politic stand I have observed thus far, why is that?
3.)  How would someone find a better solution to handling things and keeping order while following Marx's logic?
4.)  The "dog eat dog" theory that politicians involved in elections try to "talk trash" on their opponents seems childish, wouldn't that be frownded upon? Seems to me as if it is a standard method of campaign.
5.)  What can we really do to help the government besides pay taxes?  It seems as if the U.S. govt. is doing a pretty solid job according to the text...
6.)  In a way, not acting to elect and choose those who control government and politics above you is unconstitutional.  Would this be offensive to our forefathers who wrote in the D of I that we would be run by the people, for the people?
7.)  If there is (in modern times) really no way to completely rid of govt., then why hasn't someone this far down the line discovered a type that actually genuinely works?
8.)  Are politics suppose to have a negative vibe to them?  I feel as if there has always  been a bad reputation with politics of anything.
9.)  Is it possible that our unintentional system of having citizens who care about politics deal with them, and those who could care less either reap the benefits or suffer through the outcome possibly the right way to go?
10.)  Would it be more important to hold a position of power, or have extreme wealth? (such as what could happen if someone paid off another to become president, leaving them with power and the seller with wealth)
11.)  Are politics considered another barrier to humanity, or something that can bring people together, more or less of which? (In relation to how religion, ethnicity, or even a sports team can bring together different people.
12.)  Obviously after the tragic events of 9/11/01 there was a need of a government change game plan; after about ten years can it be said that this new changed govt. is better than the one we had before?
13.)  What are the politics behind the whole "Golden Door" phenomenon, it confuses me, are certain immigrants treated with different rights?  Or is that unconstitutional?
14.)  So if the INS tries to make the regions of the U.S. meet a certain quota, does everyone meet it?
15.)  What is punishment  for anyone caught moving into American illegally (immigrating), can they even be tried in the U.S., because they are not official citizens, does anyone even bother?
16.)  Is there any blatant positives to having less diversity in govt. such as in majority of foreign countries?
17.)  Should those with more money be responsible to help those with nothing, or should the govt? after all that money of the govt. is also coming from the poor as well as the rich.
18.)  Personally I think that the diversity in ethnicity and such being disreguarded in politics is a good thing because eventually everyone will become more and more the same if they live through similar experiances.  What are other opinions?
19.)  How does the nation's total consensus population increase or decrease effect political culture?
20.)  What are the personal individual responsibilities of a person living under the U.S. govt. and politics systems?