Ideals fail to give a correct portrait of reality, so I do not like them and try not to follow any preset guidelines.

My country is just a voted aristocracy. As soon as someone is in power he/she/it no longer cares about given promises and even ignores the law, if its displeased with its content.
It is a save bet that one of two parties gets ellected, so companys and media can make their deals with them.
A real opposition just recently formed, and gets bashed by any established media-source accordingly.

I think with Merkel and terrorism politics in western countrys do matter quite a lot.
While selfpreservation and wellbeeing of citizens is the highest objective in most countrys around the world, here we have morally good, self-hating dickheads in politics, who push against their own country and its traditions (outright declaring that is has no traditions of its own in my case) All just to combat their imaginary friend: the omnipresent fashism.
It has become racist to worry about relatives and friends first.