Reply #8: what we tend to forget is...

[McKenzie]

the politicians are OUR employees. There is a tendency to regard them as something seperate - "the government" - when they are nothing more than temporary servants of the public, paid for and elected by the public. If people wake up to that fact we might have a very different debate with our "employees" in the government.

Michael Moore was right when he wryly commented that democracy means voting once every four years then running around waving little flags shouting "we're free, we're free!"