I can ' t believe this blathering got upvoted and gilded . I ' m sorry but wanting someone in office to represent you politically is literally the entire purpose of a representative democracy . Hence representative democracy . I fail to see where he said anything about activism or how it ' s even relevant to what he said at all really . I mean yes you should be politically active if you want what you want but that doesn ' t mean you shouldn ' t vote for who represents you in office full time . You just seem to have read his comment , went off on like three different train of thoughts on your own , made an assumption or two , then called him narcissistic and lazy . And yes a politician SHOULD earn your vote because the alternative implies that they just implicitly deserve it ? How the hell does that make any sense at all never mind in the context of the OP ' s comment . Even you say later on your should vote for who is most qualified , which is a form of earning your vote . In the end , people can vote for whoever the fuck they want . They don ' t owe you or the world anything . They ' re not lazy or narcissistic for wanting someone with their own values to represent them . Even if that person is , in your or my opinion , a complete buffoon . You don ' t have the right to tell other people how they should vote any more than why they should vote any more than who they should vote for . If you don ' t like it , maybe democracy isn ' t for you . Honestly , the first thing that came to mind after reading the whole thing was the reaction to Adam Sandler ' s speech in the end of the movie Billy Madison . Maybe not quite that harsh really but still . Wth .