Unfortunately 'we' are the public. All of us (avoiding 'we' here) who live in a democracy have to live by the law most acceptable to the majority--(what used to be called the 'masses,' or of you prefer, 'the great unwashed'). We all have an equal vote. 'We' may be a dissenting minority, but all our votes are of equal value, and the public loves a charismatic leader/ situation. If you doubt this look at the top-rating programme on your TV. I'll bet it's not a challenging drama or a mind improving talk on the emergence of contemporary sculpture. It's the same story in politics. We like a leader to charm and entertain us more than we want to be well-governed. We are lucky when the two coincide sometimes.

Of course it's different in a dictatorship, where the Alpha animal has total power and fights like the devil to preserve it.