### person | leader:

Politician
* Many politicians do go into politics motivated by their principles
  - try to attract votes with an image created by advertising and media coverage
* Most politicians are married and have made a life-time commitment to their spouse
  - know that flag-burning form of free speech
* Some politicians are experienced in the art or science of government
  - believes all teens get pregnant to receive welfare and avoid getting a job
  - like to write books
* also have direct control over things, such as government-owned enterprises and assets.
* are a representation of the people they represent
  - afraid of being accused of racism or discrimination
  - always concerned with output, output, output
* are capable of lies
  - lower standards
  - celebrities
  - concerned with power than issues affecting people's lives
  - experts at using words that feel good but mean nothing at all in reality
  - generally, by instinct, followers of what they perceive as public opinion
  - interested in people
  - known for their rhetoric, as in speeches or campaign advertisements
  - legislators who make law
* are located in government
  - men of the people, and priests are men of the people
  - more interested in politics than governance
  - olds
  - owned by corporations, and the wars they wage are merely vehicles to drive profits
  - particularly interested in the Internet because of the demographics of users
  - people who are politically active, especially in party politics
* are people who get elected by championing popular causes
  - sworn in and then cursed out
  - people, and they tend to be more interested when celebrities speak out
  - public servants
  - puppets of the public
  - schemers
  - servants of the people
* are the most famous people in our country
  - people who start wars in the first place, regardless of what country their from
  - power brokers of society
  - thiefs
  - very similar to grass in that they like to bend with the wind
  - workers
* become powerful because they y command resources that people want or fear or respect.
* can count votes
  - create markets through credits, taxes, or regulations
* can, for example, impose taxes on Net transactions.
* choose diets.
* claim they care about education, family values, and the welfare of people.
* commonly use promises to get votes.
* count votes for a living.
* desire bribes
* face choices
  - controversial choices
* get votes when they run platforms on the issue of safety.
* have power.
* help solve the social problems of our time by making complicated decisions.
* hold public office to help others.
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - human bodies
  - legs
* increasingly act on the basis of virtual reality rather than real reality.
* like to talk about children.
* lose weight.
* love crime control because they can run on law and order
  - to talk about bringing people together, but they also win votes by dividing people
* make laws and judges serve as the backbone of the rule of law.
* often campaign on moral platforms because they know it's what people want to hear
  - live and die by their rhetoric
  - use ethnic loyalties to get and remain in power
* pass laws to increase their power or reward their friends.
* require taxpayers to pay interest on their own money.
* respond to people when they are in numbers.
* serve as governors.
* support ideas.
* take advantage.
* tend to be wealthy, and tend to advocate the special interests of the wealthy.
* try to create laws that help everyone do what is right.
* use contributions to finance their electoral expenditures
  - support for the death penalty as a symbol of their toughness on crime
  - the public sphere to generate an aura of legitimacy around their decisions
* work hard to get themselves elected into positions of power.
+ Ethics, What is ethics used for?
  * Government policy can be affected by what politicians think is ethical. Politicians try to create laws that help everyone do what is right. Political debates happen when the people who make public policy do not agree about what is right.
+ United States, Politics: English-speaking countries :: G8 nations
  * Since 2009, the president is a Democrat, so Democrats have slightly more power in the federal government. However, there are still many powerful Republicans who can try to stop the Democrats from doing things that they believe will be bad for the country. Also, the Democrats do not always agree with each other on what to do. And if enough people decide to vote against Democrats in the next election, then they will lose power. In a republic like the United States, no party can do whatever they want. All politicians have to argue, compromise, and make deals with each other to get things done. They have to answer to the people and take responsibility for their mistakes.