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Where to being and how simple a response could I make...
1. Politicians are quite a different breed of human.
2. You are stating opinions of people. I don't think people could universally agree that Bush was a bad president. It's only an opinion.
3. I'm sure people tried to harm or assassinate Bush, but given that the President is one of the most (if not the most) guarded persons in the world, you probably won't see anything happen. That one guy threw the shoes at him. That wasn't an attempt to harm?
4. Saying religion doesn't have the same importance now that it did then is also an opinion. Many people still view religion as highly important. But as times have changed, we've gone from religious explanations to secular explanations. It's much better to blame something you can see or feel rather than something you aren't sure exists or can't be as directly blamed for problems. God did after all leave it to humans to rule themselves quite a while ago.
5. Your question is loaded. Are all leaders humans choose bad? Do we choose them only to later blame them when they screw up? I don't think humans choose to follow stupid people. In fact, politicians are sometimes some of the smartest and cleverest people the world has. Just because you don't agree with them or what they do or vote for doesn't make them stupid.
6. What you have described is also misleading. People did follow those men. Jesus, Galileo, and Gandhi all had followings and still have followings to this day. They threateningly challenged those in authority and with power and suffered the consequences because of it. That's just how the world is and how it treats the "better" men of society.
To summarize my thoughts, I would say that no, we don't choose the wrong people to have someone to blame for our misery. I think we choose to elect people or to allow people to govern over us who do not always have the people's best interests in mind. I don't think we intentionally do it to have someone to blame for our misery later, but in the hopes that our misery will be alleviated or lessened. When people do come along who are good and have the right ideas, they are often times removed from society by the powers at be simply because they are a threat and because their ideas are the right ideas. I don't think these leaders are stupid or idiots, but rather people who become dependent on power and are forced to make decisions to stay in power despite the affect on the people.
People put trust in their leaders, but when this trust is violated, there is not a lot people can do to fix it unless they put all efforts into finding a better position to fill the position. Regardless, they attempt to choose people who will make the best decision, not to serve as a scapegoat when misery just so happens to come along. Does that make any sense? Btw, if you couldn't tell, I'm not a fan of Nietzsche. I thought his views and ideas were quite pessimistic and unreasonable.
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