Nearly everyone detests politicians. But being a politician is one of the worst professions to do. When entering into politics you must be non-intelligent or at least pretend so (which is extremely difficult). Why? Because all the lobbyists, secret services (public or hidden), super-rich groups, multinational companies, banks, etc. do want politicians that can be played around.
Let’s start with an example: you have a new political party. You have members and leaders with good intentions. But there is The iron law of oligarchy. Not only some members start to become more and more influential but private (commercial) interests destroy relatively perfect party democracy.
This has turned into a face (the very politician), mover-and-shaker (the brain), and crook (stealing public funds or monetizing the influence he exerts over the politician).
And then we have the big money that pays you (it doesn’t matter whether it is via university lectures) and your campaign (democracy used to be so much better without all the pricey campaigns).
I hold in regard that my readers are intelligent but for the record. It is entirely impossible not to be a part of the system.
As a politician with good intentions, you have your own agenda. Prison system reform, homelessness, mental health crisis, improving economy.
You would say a law just has to be passed. Absolutely wrong. The interest groups that are in some constellation (are intertwined) intentionally block your good-purpose laws in order to you to do them a favor which can be some policies affecting their big business (and we are talking only about big business) or a set of steps how to change the constellation so they can benefit from it.
You have 1000 problems to solve but you can solve only ten of them. It depends on how clever you are politically and how you set the whole system to gain as much political capital as you can. Now you can see an example of why they choose non-intelligent politicians. On the contrary, the lobbyists and the super-rich are super-smart. However, all the drainage of the politicians results in a country being in shape so bad that the super-rich starts to feel its dire consequence.
So if a politician wants to push some policy through he or she must accordingly to at least some interest groups which means doing something he absolutely doesn’t agree with (and that can result in a big scandal) or telling a lie.
Media can be destroying you or you can destroy someone through the media if you gain power (yes, the super-rich control the media).
Another example: If a European prime minister wants education to be better he must overcome a corruption effort by a completely different power circle. And if he does, the USA which exerts enormous influence over the world doesn’t want the country’s universities to be so good (in order to be dominant in science and technology – thus militarily). Well, a tough choice.
The very politicians can be evil and good so which means he or she misuses the political capital for their benefit (to have more money, be longer in politics, be more celebrated, and so on) or use it for people’s benefit.
Since right or left specter no longer exists in Europe due to some reason the very politician cannot uphold his or her beliefs. Yes, I consider this division as some animalistic ideologies (and evolutionary psychology clearly manifests they are something animalistic) but if they believe it they cannot implement policies accordingly.
And finally, every politician wears off. You must go through the scandals, corruption, outright lies, inflicting damage to the country. So I am still wondering: “Do you want to be a politician?”
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