Lance Mannion writes:
We want our politicians to represent us but that's far from saying we want them to stand in for us as surrogate selves.
I think this is mistaken. It seems to me that many people, notably BushBots, do see politicians as surrogates for their selves. Perhaps this is limited to those who have an authoritarian personality but there are still a lot of people who feel this way and that's one reason why they are so recalcitrant when it comes to acknowledging the shortcomings of "their" politician: to do so they would also have to acknowledge that they also have a shortcoming.
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