Well-spoken. This brings to mind the concept of “discernment,” or as the Buddhists say, “discriminating awareness.” The Buddha did talk of the “middle way” (similar to Gurdjieff’s “third force”). But the Buddha also famously spoke of “right thought” and “right action.” Voting for a President in this day and age, to the Buddha, would be a consequence of wisdom and compassion. It might be an over-simplification to think that our two previous choices for President were both “right choices,” in my opinion. In the end, you are correct though: we all react, without a stable, real “soul” (as Gurdjieff calls it), within. Until we have a soul, we can only try to make “right choices.”