The relation between the Top and the Bottom must be real.

A very important aspect of government is the relation that connects the Top with the Bottom. The usual 'connection' between the Top and the Bottom is linguistic. In many cases its just a lot of empty political talk. That's a huge problem that arises in the Executive branch. Many of the laws and much of the policy implemented by the Top of government remain general, empty, linguistic, political slogans. I do not mean to isolate the linguistic problematic to the Executive branch since the laws are passed in 'linguistic form' by the Legislative Branch and interpreted by 'interpretive practices' by the Judicial Branch. Hence, the Executive Branch implements those policies and laws, but it does not have to apply them merely in 'linguistic' fashion. By this last statement, I mean the application can be direct and can 'touch' the individuals effected and not be merely 'politically correct'. By direct I mean it must 'touch' each and every individual to whom the policy or law applies. It cannot 'carve-out' the application to preferred sectors of the polity. In other words, it cannot merely be a linguistic application, it must apply, in a real way, to each and every individual covered by the statement. For example; the freedom and equality of everyone is an undisputed characteristic of a democracy, hence when freedom and equality are issues covered by policy or law, each and every individual must be assured of his/her freedom and equality in a real manner. This can only be done if the Bottom of democracy is quantified and the actual individuals to whom the statement is applied is actually 'counted' as having individually received these rights or as having been 'touched' by them. Its very difficult to delineate the distinction between 'just a political slogan' and the actuality. Of course, politicians rely on these difficulties to abuse the system. Remember the bombing of Iraq; remember the question, "why are we bombing Iraq?"; remember the answer? "We are bringing them democracy". hell, we were killing lots of innocents! Political slogans can be used to muddy the waters and politicians know that. That abuse exists in all the Three Branches of government. That's why we need Statesmen, not politicians.