To be honest with you, I don't care much about politicians. Most of them annoy me--they are a large group of people who largly have never experienced psychotherapy and often are not aware of their own biases or pet ideologies. In fact, it's a bonus it seems in today's politics to be completely inarticulate and unaware, not to mention unidirectional, in picking your point of view and sticking to it.
However, the reason for this post is solely one--there is an important psychological component to all of it. What if we take these politicians to be our leaders, our thought police, our enlightening members of society, our leaders of spirit. Well, in that case I'm quite sure that we will no doubt find ourselves often lost, confused, in pain, and suffering. Sometimes we may also become stupidly rich and unthoughtful and learn to exercise little concern for other human beings. Hey, am I being biased? Tell me!
Mostly there is importance in leaders. Human psychology teaches us about modeling, it teaches us about great parenting, it teaches us about reciprical communication. It teaches us to listen!
Well, let me assure you that if you listen to today's political news these are not qualities that we often hear about or witness. And what of that? Well, if our leaders behave that way, do they pave the way for us to follow or do they encourage us to resist?! Or does it also depend on our personality?
All together what I'd like to say is that it's nice to hear a politician support your point of view. Makes you feel safe, kind of. It's like thinking, "wow somebody out there hears me and supports me." Wow woW wow Wow what a good feeling.
Listen to Dennis Kucinich
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