Failing that, we need to depend on actual human beings. And for the human beings that plan to do good for us to succeed they need a following.
Rush and Trump showed us that you can't get a great following by just so happening to be right. You need to be engaging and appeal to people's emotions as well.
So we are stuck getting hyped over pols who sometimes stay true and other times fall off the path.
Your post 13 was a nice bit of sorely-needed realism.