[Skybird]

Politicians most times ARE isolated from their country's realities, or ignore it intentionally, or are kept away from it by the other great player in the game: the bureaucracy and ministries (that sort the facts and infos before they ever made it to the working desk of a ministre and hereby form a stupid crowd themselves - have you ever noticed some cases when a single man stood up with some critical info, valid for public interest - and was brought down by his own ministry because he disturbed the usualy routine? I have several such stories from Germany on my mind, I see no reason why it should be different in other countries).
Politicians are more busy to twist and turn reality so that it matches their lobby's intentions (, I think of the way reality is descroibed by the German SPD now, in the great coaltion, whereas before reality was the same - but as government they made it sound something completely different; or just think of the story that I made a thread of, NASA, by command of official policy, silencing it's chief scientist on climate change, and in that article other examples of scientists beeing called back not to question the administration's official interpretation are quoted, too). That lobbyists (like politicians) make maximum use of the phenomenon of stupidity beeing the greater the bigger the crowd is, is no surprise, is it. Especially people who put blind trust in the democratic system and the personell that got elected by it are vulnerable to this manipulation. Telling them that usually is a complete useless affair.

I have a text by Bonhoeffer which I already have quoted one or two times in recent years here. I will look for it and give it again. The best analysis I have ever red on this matter, brief and right to the point.

Intelligent politicians - it's been some time since I listend to one qualifying for that description. The kind of politicians i see on TV are clever, and that is something different than intelligent. Clever in promoting their own egoism and the interests of the lobbies they are controlled by. they are not statesmen, but managers.

Nazi's vision was not to annihilate their country, but to rule the world. during the war they just folund out that they took a bigger bite than what they could swallow. I find your way of arguing confused. You take the ending for the beginning.

Immidiate treatements for symptoms are preferred to long-term and lasting solutions of problems. That'S why people vote for the same corrupt parties time and again, instead of sending them to hell.