Psychology vs politics

One of my current problems is that I find the Democratic primary is waaaaaay more interesting that Graduate School. For some reason, I don't have the same passion about psychology topics that I do about politics. This concerns me. Shouldn't I be passionate about my field? I get upset when people are unethical clinicians...but that's about it.
I no longer see the purpose of research, it just seems that either people keep finding contradictory results about a topic so they have to argue about who uses the best methodology, or people keep showing the same thing. Furthermore, a lot of people (myself included) get to work with very large sample sizes. This is great because you can get almost anything to be significant - but what does this mean! If you say children of Schizophrenics tend to be 5 points higher on Neuroticism than children of Alcoholics...how does this matter? What does it say about the individual? How does it apply to real life? If I gained 5 points of Neuroticism tomorrow (impossible as I am in the 99th percentile - ha!) how would my life change?

There's also covariates...I feel we end up "controlling" for everything until we get something completely artificial. For example, "controlling" for other psychopathology... It makes results CLEAN, but then I see patients with GAF's in the high 30's, low 40's and they have so many Personality Disorders, substance use problems, health problems, neurological problems, etc. it seems utterly ridiculous to say, well, if we controlled for all your other problems (including your personality!) your depression wouldn't be so bad!

Like the famous line by Otto von Bismarck "Laws are like sausage, it is better not to see them being made", the more I see the way people gather data, run statistical analysis and select what goes into the manuscript, the less I want to know about it.
The same applies to the more clinicians I meet. (I think the TRUE reason why self-disclosure is not a good idea in therapy is that then the patient knows how messed up their therapist really is...)

I know and accept that politics are nasty, messy and unfair. I know that there are puppets and puppet-masters and to get things done there needs to be blood. This is the way things are the way things are going to be. I don't mind this at all as long as the outcome leads to the greater good. Without politics we would have a bunch of narcissistic, manipulative, shrewd psychopaths running around without benefiting anyone, with politics we get them passing laws (ends justify the means) that hopefully maintain some order and benefit a lot of people.

I do NOT feel the same way about psychology - I don't like the various shades of dark gray. The manipulative faculty members are just not as admirable as the manipulative politicians. A lot of basic research is intellectual masturbation. A lot of patients just will never improve (they might change...a little).