countthree
Well-Known Member
It depends on what the word politics means to you.
And of course in which country you live.
It's not without reason many people distrust politics due to the professional politicians deceiving their voters and not representing their interests but only their own.
Promising everything just to get their votes so they have a well paid job, paid by those same voters through taxes and the voters can go f*** themselves.
Promising a lot and not keeping their promises makes the fools happy until they get dissapointed again but than the whole circus starts again.
I once had some informal, off the record conversations with some politicians, from different parties, socialists, liberals, conservatives, right-wing, left-wing, and one thing stroke me and was insightful to me.
They were ALL very cynical and downright defeating about the voters.
The attitude was like, "can't they just get off their fat asses once in four years" and give me or my party the votes"? Why do I have to go to all this trouble to represent people I just loathe?
They won't tell you that openly, and publicly, that's for sure.
Of course talking about politics is very risky in some places and it's considered bad taste in others. It's the idea those governments instille on people to be able to operate without being controlled by a srong and political public opinion. Power hates boundaries, that's why i's so impotant the idea of limits to the power.