i don't agree but it's a well worn path.
for myself, i think the nature of problems usually doesn't fit too well with the grandiloquence of political leadership.
so we end up with leaders who find that their pretty words and purified philosophies aren't adequate to meet the challenges they face.
this doesn't surprise me so much as i believe in competing forces in politics as much as in physics. you don't choose between ideals like individualism or egalitarianism. you recognise both have some value and you seek to combine them in ways that avoid the extremes of both.
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