“The Demo-Crips and Re-Blood-licans have been in charge in this country for over one hundred years and look at the shape we’re in,” Ventura defended himself from the first moment of the live CNN interview, “We have a national debt that’s out of control. They send us to wars that we shouldn’t be fighting in, meaningless wars. And think of this for a moment, I’m 60 years old now and for over 30 years now, half of my life, we’ve been at war. That’s ridiculous.”