[baybal2]

> If you’re generally cynical of politicians as a people, I can’t recommend Ben Rhodes’ book The World as It Is [4] enough.

I think this goes well for politics in the West. Politicians there "go with the flow" and almost never against.

I used to socialise with Cristy Clark social circles when I lived in Vancouver. On my naive questions about why things a, b, and c not got discussed, I almost always got a hushed response like "It would've been a political suicide to this and that camp."

Politics is very hard to enter, and very easy to be ejected out.

It is those who have the power to direct that "flow" of bigger social trends in which all mainstream politics happens that truly direct the nation, but such people are very, very rare, few times a century occurrences for a nation.