Hey Toon'. There is a reason the initial responses to your post referenced especially charismatic political characters. Politics and religion all derive from a common psychological root; the proposition that belief can replace the unappeasable logic of reality.

Your lament that the understanding of important issues is ever more remote from that which exercises the majorities' mind is well taken. The fundamental cancer of democracy emerges when the mind of the "demos" is allowed to weaken or is distracted with bread and circuses. Unless this changes, the future looks more like Caesar than Jefferson.

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