Despite being only twenty-someting, it seems to me that in the 'old' days, politicians were more about what was going on, rather than targeting the key demographic.

An apocalypse?

Let's say it's not a large country, but about 1000 people in isolation.

What would be the target points of any politician?

Survival would be number one ofcourse.
Would there be any candidate who would talk about distribution of wealth? Ofcourse not. Because that would be a given.

Yet in in this day and age, when we are supposedly so far beyond the monkeys and A.I.s, we still allow certain extremely unjustified dictators to rule other people.

Trust me, when I'm done drinking, I'll make it more clearer.