Aye. True. Myself I like to think some things through from first principles, others I expect I don't even know I'm mindlessly toeing the line!

Tonight a politician MP came to the door looking for my vote for one of his party in the local elections, and asked what, if anything, I thought or wanted and whether he could help.  I heard myself saying I wanted honesty in politics and that one little tick on my piece of paper would probably not make much difference to that, and then we went on to discuss democracy and he quoted Churchill saying that it's not a perfect system but it's better than any other.  When his companion wanted to leave me her card for after her (successful)  election so that I would have her email and number for her to help me with what I wanted I said that if there was anything I wanted I would probably try and do it myself.

In all, a jolly time was had by all, and we shook hands before they left for next door.