What is politics about? (© 2008 Eileen Baker)
Politics is about anything other than the truth.
It can't ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets lost in the interests of self-interest.
If there is a politician who is capable of standing up impartially for the truth, then their party will get rid of them as they are of no use to party-interests and narrow national interests.
So those who are left are the ones who will act in self-interest, party-interest and national interest, in that order.
There are always people looking for a podium upon which to place their particular inadequacy or "chip on their shoulder", so that they can 'become' "something important". Clubs with members and political parties are good places to do this as you can practise on all kinds of people, press buttons, get alliances, build walls (not bridges) and generally give yourself a reason to live. Which means that they are sad people; politicians who get 'somewhere' in national politics are the cream of the notoriously inadequate with good suits on and vulgar salaries.
Don't be deceived by their education, intelligence or presentational skills.
A fool is a fool. An educated fool is still a fool. (I think it was Oscar Wilde that said this).
It can't ever be about the truth because where ever you have two people you have the beginning of the deceit; where you have three, you have the beginning of siding with the one most able to press your own buttons. The truth gets lost in the interests of self-interest.
If there is a politician who is capable of standing up impartially for the truth, then their party will get rid of them as they are of no use to party-interests and narrow national interests.
So those who are left are the ones who will act in self-interest, party-interest and national interest, in that order.
There are always people looking for a podium upon which to place their particular inadequacy or "chip on their shoulder", so that they can 'become' "something important". Clubs with members and political parties are good places to do this as you can practise on all kinds of people, press buttons, get alliances, build walls (not bridges) and generally give yourself a reason to live. Which means that they are sad people; politicians who get 'somewhere' in national politics are the cream of the notoriously inadequate with good suits on and vulgar salaries.
Don't be deceived by their education, intelligence or presentational skills.
A fool is a fool. An educated fool is still a fool. (I think it was Oscar Wilde that said this).
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