National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.