Do we deserve better rulers?

We generally tend to blame politics and the politicians for all our problems, as if the rest of the people and professions in the country are functioning just fine and dandy.

Politicians are not aliens from the Mars. They hail from the very society that everyone else does. Their “actions” represent a version of the collective nature of our society. Maybe we are too proud to admit it, but it is the truth.

French philosopher Joseph de Maistre once observed, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.” We ought to ask ourselves whether we deserve better than what we got.