I hate politics. It’s slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don’t like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you’re not on my side, you’re the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Cuban frames electoral politics as a marketplace distorted by incentives: candidates “pander for votes,” rewarding short-term signaling over problem-solving. His emphasis on “slimy” partisanship points to a moral and civic critique—political identity hardens into tribal loyalty, turning disagreement into enmity. By invoking Unity08, a mid-2000s effort to promote a bipartisan/centrist presidential ticket outside the two major parties, he argues that structural competition (more parties, more options) could reduce polarization and improve accountability. The quote reflects a business-oriented preference for choice and competition as correctives to entrenched duopolies, applied here to democratic governance.