Ken, I understand your point. I made it similarly on a critical national issue in which I was involved directly and wrote about it in magazine article, of which this was the closing paragraph:
"In a democratic society the function of political leadership in the old tradition of Bentham and Mills is to do what the people want and the test of performance is winning at election time. (Name of federal cabinet minister) is making smart policy. It is politic, but it is not good for Canada."
It is what it is. Clinton's switcheroo on TPP an example. Trump's 35 per cent tax cut for middle class another. ". . .do what the people want and the test of performance is winning at election time." Smart campaign policy, politic but good for the United States of America?
(The article in Atlantic Insight magazine was titled, "The fishery is not a welfare system."
