'My main job is to keep my job, to get reelected. It takes precedence over everything,' an anonymous member of Congress writes in a new book

'Voters are incredibly ignorant and know little about our form of government and how it works,' he writes

'It's far easier than you think to manipulate a nation of naive, self-absorbed sheep who crave instant gratification'

The author is a Democrat in Congress who laid out his complaints to a long-time friend and former Capitol Hill staffer who edited them into a book

'The Confessions of Congressman X' will be released May 24 by a small Minnesota-based 'vanity press' publisher