The People, the Media, Ideologues, and Democratic Non-Engagement

It comes to my attention that in general "the people" - who ever that nebulous entity may be - or perhaps more accurately, "the media" and those who associate themselves with it, care not what the actions are of ideological figures, so long as they self-identify with said figures espoused ideology. So it is, for example, that two presidential figures can initiate and execute nearly identical policies, and yet one garners criticism and identification as the abomination of desolation, whilst the other is worshipped as a new messiah (of course, who is which depends upon the ideological identification of said "people"/"media"/identifites). Though, I find it difficult to question the validity of the former identification, the later steadfastly demonstrates the veracity of a certain Dane's aversion to "the media" and "the people", i.e., Crowds. As such, it brings a little shame to me that I sullied my unbroken record of democratic non-engagement by voting in the last election, though perhaps there was some virtue in the act of voting for someone who was not running for office