Are you being used? You can be used only and only if you are of any use. Are you of any use by the way?
Do you know that you are worth far more than you think. Even if you are of no use according to your own measure, do you know you can still be used as dead weight. Do you know what is your dead weight?
Your are dead weight is directly proportional to your ignorance not about the environ around you but about yourself.
While on the other side your weight (say) is directly proportional to your awareness of your environ.
Anyway you will be used. It is up to you which way you want to be used.
You have a fixed dead weight on which you have no control because it is your intrinsic value and you are not aware of it.
However it becomes an altogether a different scenario when you are aware of your value and you can negotiate your weight (say).
It does not not matter as long as you are being used for public cause. But unfortunately that is not the case.
More you become aware of your weight and being used more weight you gain.
And you reach a situation where the tables are turned and you are in a position to use instead of being used.
That is politics.