Reply #14: For many, politics has turned into exercise of electing someone to "save us". . .

[pat_k]

. . .and then cheering on the chosen savior. Electoral politics is the be all, end all, instead of being the starting point of an ongoing process in which we seek to elect those we deem most reasonable, and then engage those who get elected in the fight to save ourselves.

When one has worked so hard to elect a savior, everything that person does must be for our "salvation." And when the savior appears to be doing something immoral or derelict, it must be part of some secret plan to ultimately do the right thing.

It's the difference between being a citizen cheerleader and being a citizen lobbyist.