Should Politicians Really Get all the Blame?

Or is it time for the public to accept responsibility too. As prot said on his visit from K-PAX, “Don’t blame the politicians for your problems. They are merely a reflection of yourselves.”

I guess it's a question of enough of the public accepting the situation and pressing the politicians to act and enough politicians accepting the situation and having the confidence that the public will back them when they act. So far there is little acceptance in public due to wealth factors, thus the politicians are not confident they will get backing if they act.

In a democracy the government can only lead at the margin without risking getting voted out. Some might think our reaction to a politician who makes a small tentative shuffle in the right direction should be to say 'Well done, that's great. Now can you go a bit further, by teatime please'. Others recognise we don't have time to play around waiting for selfish public and weak leaders to make the call.

I’m with the latter based on historic human behaviour.