He also said, “The Obamas renewed the magic of the movement…It was a sacred task.”
Spiritual oasis, magic, sacred task – investing politicians with a religious significance is a terrible idea. There is no magic at a political convention. Politicians are fallible human beings. We shouldn’t deify them. The whole idea behind the creation of America is that politicians are not anointed by God. They come and go, and we keep them in check by refusing to grant them any legitimacy beyond what we specifically hire them to do.
Personality cults are not a good idea. Treating politics as a transcendent, religious activity is wrong.
This is something I’ve said for a long time, too many Americans think the president is going to be a Messiah who fixes everything and gives people whatever they want. This is what happens when people don’t know civics or how the government works, they develop this messianic mentality that the president is a god who will fix everything and give them lots of goodies. This is a mindset one sees in Third World countries, it shouldn’t be a thing in the US
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