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/^t/Times when people thought that their representatives chosen in free elections were destined to fulfil some important missions have gone. These days few believe that ambitious men go into politics just because they are committed to carrying out social reforms or want to save the mankind from misery. Most often the people we choose are skilled in dealing with us to their own advantage. They are interested in getting as far up the career ladder as they possibly can and only the next approaching campaign makes them stop for a while and think about ordinary people. And it is the time when they miraculously come up with hundreds of new ideas. They talk a lot of claptrap about unemployment, poverty, crime, social division and say what they would improve if they were chosen for the next term. But believe me - what they are most interested in is how to draw support and win and the countless number of jokes about politicians as people you cannot trust prove that this opinion is shared by the majority.