Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
It's still "government of the people, by the people and for the people". We don't work for politicians, they work for us. Americans got complacent and a bit lazy and during the last 100 years we relied on glitz disguised as news and hollywood disguised as reality. As soon as Americans learn to think again and understand the gift of the Constitution and freedom we will get back what we gave away.
Politicians represent us. We the people elect them. We live in a democracy with representative republican form of government.