why do we call politicians public servants when they only serve their own interests?

Question

also if they dont serve us or our community why do we continue to elect the jerks?

Answer 1

They are called public servants because they serve their own greedy needs using public money.

Answer 2

Answer #1 I have never heard anyone call a politician a public servant but if someone ever does they are probly on their payroll or they are just one of those optimistic people who don't see the lies and corruption present in our government.

Answer #2 a. Because everyone that has good ideas on how to help the community is too poor to pay for the campaign.

b. Because even if one of the above mentioned managed to get into office the current system of getting things done in our governmental system is too complex and you need to have support from other politicians who more then likely don't care about the community and even if they did it would still take an even longer time to get the changes made and the public adjusted and all the other crap that they throw in as a supposed "safety measure".

Answer 3

Politicians are suppose to serve the public that's why they are called public servants.
We elect them because we have to elect somebody.
The fact that they are professional lier's and cheats says more about themselves than us for electing them.

Answer 4

THey do serve the public, just not all of the people all of the time. If we are electing people we feel do notdo what we elected them to do and we continue to renew them in those positions...who's the jerk?....

Answer 5

Democrats sell welfare & public projects in exchange for votes.

Answer 6

When speaking of politics I think it is important to look at the latin roots of the word. "Poli" meaning "Many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking insects".

Answer 7

May be cause we are obligated to vote.