"All politicians are equal." Every time I hear this phrase, I get impatience. The same impatience that I experience when I hear someone proclaim to be a politician or a citizen of the world.

It also happens to me with other rounds of another kind: they can be lighter – in a proportion, explanations that ensure that computer applications are intuitive – or more bloated – such as those that reveal admirations for motherhood.

Whether it's a lie or truth, after all, it doesn't matter: the thousands of repeated expressions stick firmly in our brains and are difficult to fatten.

As they are simplifications, they contain traps that hide things that are said without saying, suggested, and left without saying.

All this makes them very useful as a tool for handling.

When all politicians are proclaimed to be equal, there are a lot of people who agree with that, surely because they do not know how to cope with the feeling of disappointment caused by politics. By saying that all politicians are equal, we can address a reassuring diagnosis: politics is disappointing, but we are not guilty of it, because politicians are to blame.

The phrase, however, places the politicians separated from the citizens, creating gaps between them. It is a false gap, because politicians are the citizens, the representatives of the citizens, and therefore a reflection of all our assets and evils.

If we say that all politicians are equal, we are saying without saying that we are better than them, more honest, more effective? And secretly, we hide, without saying, a dark disdain for politics, a retreat. The boredom of politics. And that, after all, is only a benefit for those who want to rule on everyone’s affairs (because that is politics) without everyone. Those, those who want to rule on the things of citizenship without counting them, are pushing contempt and nausea on politicians and politicians.

I do not know how, but we should restore dignity to political action. Politics is too important for citizenship, too fundamental, and we should not leave it to those who suggest to us that all politicians are equal to disregard politics. It is in the hands of those who say that too many elections are being held or that referendums are not needed.