One Election Down Another To Come

Having recently coming through an election and listening to many speeches and sound bites it seems to me that our politicians are more actors than they are leaders. They have research teams that gather information on what public opinion is on any given issue and then they have speech writers who craft speeches to target the audiences demographics and then they play to the crowd. I believe that is why we often hear one thing at one rally and this very candidate expounding the apposite stance at another. I suspect that they have prepared speeches coming out in favor of both sides of every issue. It seems to me that our politician don't believe in anything other than getting elected. These so called leaders don't come out on what they believe they tell us what their research says we want to hear and we fall for it. They don't give us solutions they just shout accusations against the opposing candidates. They have no qualms about promising us the world because I suspect that in most cases they have no intention of carrying through on any of them. What frightens me is that it is said that our leaders are a reflection of ourselves.