Stir the Pot

I hear so much talk from Barry and his minions in Congress about doing so many good things for the collective good of the people--for society.  When I start hearing politicians talking about the collective I get the heeby jeebies.  Haven't we heard this before?  It's like dejavu all over again.
The first thing that bothers me about this is having politicians determine what is 'good' for anyone.  What that really means is what will help the politician get re-elected and line their pocket with money.  Period.  That's the only 'good' they know.  This is why we have checks and balances and limited, enumerated powers in the Constitution.  Now if we could only get them to obey those dictates.  But that's a topic I have already opined on repeatedly in this  blog.  Something about a nation of laws, not men.  Our Constitution lays out what is good for the nation.  We don't need politicians trying to throw in their two cents.   I really don't want or need other people deciding what is 'good' for me.
The other challenge with this is having politicians trying to define just who or what exactly is society, or the collective.  Does it self-define?  Is it just intuitively obvious?  I think in reality politicians tend to define the collective as whatever group they are trying to pander to at the moment for, here it comes; votes and money.  There really is no great amorphous, homogenous society with all the same needs and wants at the same time.  We are a bubbling cauldron of individuals and various interest groups who shift and move and change and meld and dissolve and come back together again in differing forms over time with our own personal changing needs and desires.  You can't really take a snapshot at one moment in time and say, aha! that is the collective society and these are its needs and so based upon that, I; beneficent politican will go forth and do 'good' for it (and maybe help me in the process).
So the 'collective' and the 'good' are really only aritifical creations of polticians at any given moment in time which in reality wind up only promoting what is best for the politician; and their wants and needs (votes and money).
When you hear politicians talking about these things, run away, run away!