When people realize they are the brunt of this joke and can laugh at the whole scene, the joke will be on the politicians. Why he is just another fool behind a curtain of illusions. However, here the similarity ends. The politician sees the cash register as the means of buying the ballot box, or at least its contents consisting of tokens of consent coaxed from depositors by advertising promises that cannot be kept. The cash register IS the businessman s ballot box in his daily campaign to stay in business, the contents, if any, signifying promises actually delivered in a voluntary exchange.
Politicians are armed and ready to deal with resistance.
They are prompt to justify forceful retaliation against non-conformity as if that was essential to the maintenance order for the public good. Everybody knows people must not be allowed to take the law into their own hands. After all, as they say, anarchy won't do, while they allow political institutions to proceed to disrupt the spontaneous social order that exists and leave anarchy in its place. This destruction of public order is euphemistically referred to as government regulation and law enforcement. Politicians seem to cope well enough with personal insults and character assassinations between themselves as just a part of the game.