This put me in mind of a friend in hospital. When one is terminally ill, given care, they take on the role of the patient. The doctors play the doctors. It is s

This put me in mind of a friend in hospital. When one is terminally ill, given care, they take on the role of the patient. The doctors play the doctors. It is sometimes possible to make up your own lines, but again, you don't last long. Maybe this is more of the human condition, merely projected onto politicians (and/or subconsciously selected for in all popular actors as a way to temporarily offset or allay our own existential dread: There's nothing more satisfyingly life-affirming for an audience than watching the rise and fall of someone else).