Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money.
It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.
Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
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