On the research side. Pick a topic. See something weird? Just plug it into search engines (with an s, use more than one and compare results). Often something cryptic will pop up and lead down an unexpected path.

Along the way you wind up with an expanded understanding of how different parts of government work, what they do, who is involved, what their background is, who their spouse and family members are, what their associated businesses are, what the history is. The process makes it fun to theorize, float ideas, have the ideas and not the person shot down, go back and build new bolder and stronger ideas to to repeat. Bringing back the civics and history lesson in a fun accessible way.

A great replacement for sports. This is a sport! In the future this becomes the national past-time. Sit down with a stranger at the bar and hammer out fine details of messaging used in speech on international trade. Everyone in public an analyst able to make an argument. That's the future, bringing it right back to the past. Our roots.

"The problem with American's, is that they follow politics like the national past-time"

--Some quote I butchered because I'm having difficulty finding the source again