Poloticians are Like Piests reciting mass in Latin we the Laity guess she must know

 the key political function of holders of public office is to occupy the place of what  Žižek calls, after Lacan, “the Other supposed to know.”

 Žižek cites the example of priests reciting mass in Latin before an uncomprehending laity, who believe that the priests know the meaning of the words, and for whom this is sufficient to keep the faith. 

Far from presenting an exception to the way political authority works, for Žižek this scenario reveals the universal rule of how political consensus is formed