Democratic 'politics' is a serious 'business'; but, democratic elections can be hilarious.

Politics is a 'serious' business but, democratic politics can be vicious and hilarious. How can anything so 'serious', become ludicrous? That's easy. Its the result of the initial division of the Many, or, the 'Peoples', at the Bottom of democratic government into political Parties, and the subsequent vicious, adhesion, to so-called, 'Party loyalty'. Comes election time, and all the 'comedians' come out. Its really insulting. I mean, do the politicians really believe that the public actually believes all the 'antagonistic' remarks that are published? Yet, with the many uses of 'advertising techniques', instead of political 'statesmen-ship', we become 'inundated' in an avalanche of 'information' that is difficult to ignore. Some of these so-called 'political issues' draw more 'attention' than the first showing of the Godzilla movie. Of course, that's the goal of political ridiculousness. Maybe all politicians should be given psychological evaluations before they are permitted to 'run'? Maybe it takes a 'brain-dead' type of 'self-evaluation', for any one 'individual' to think s/he can assume a 'political position' within a democracy? Hey, it's 'serious business'. (Notice, that even I cannot ignore the word 'business' in the discussion of a political situation.) Politics is about 'Statesmen-ship', not about economic advantages, nor adhesion, to Party politics. Sure, they divide to 'conquer' at the polls. But, politics should be about 'driving the ship-of state', i.e. the 'whole' ship-of State, not about dividing the ship-of-State into Parties. The Duty of the One is to establish a 'real relation' to the 'real People' at the Bottom of government; and then, to abide by the 'political principles' of Freedom and Equality of each and every Individual at the Bottom. Economic principles and all their institutional 'off-spring' exist for a different reason, and have absolutely nothing to do with competence to 'drive' the whole 'ship-of state'. The two principles must be kept separate. Driving-the 'whole' Ship of State requires a certain 'selflessness'. That, should be the 'quality' possessed by someone seeking political office. Of course, even someone with that 'quality', must first 'survive', the 'information overload' created by the political division into Parties. How can politicians become more serious? How can we, as individuals, become 'whole' again?