[Thorgal]

"I expected better" ?

It's true, though. Not everyone has the intelligence, manipulation or charisma (just to name a few roleplaying-terms ) to convince/lead/please the masses. Otherwise, our history, with all its different empires/countries would look a lot different, thus affecting the world we're living in, and the whole economy, which has a key role in the world, would be quite different, to say the least

As for your rephrase, yes, it is better, though it still isn't completely true imho, as there's still lots of folks in the scene out there who have enough brains to be able to come up with some criticism.