The term politician can be traced back to the Greek and Roman Empire days. The word itself comes from a Greek word “polis”. The definition itself is someone who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making. However, what is actually the essence of a politician one may ask.
Lots of us normal citizens can see these politicians rising up to the podiums during election year and try to convince the voters to vote them into office. Some are seasoned veterans while some are young idealistic people hoping to make a change. No matter how different they are in terms of ideals and political stand, they always pursue the same reason to vote for them; they will help the rakyat to live a better life. Most of these politicians always refer to themselves as the servant of the rakyat. They are the servant while the rakyat are the master. How true this is? Let’s find out.
Ask a politician why we should vote for him. He will tell you by voting for him, he will be able to change the political demographic of a country and even to the extent of passing legislations and laws that govern the country. For the benefit of a doubt that sounds good if all are done in the best interest of the rakyat. However, if we analyze it further, no matter how noble their intentions are, deep down it is just a form of illusion of grandeur whereby they feel they are so powerful that they can control and change another person’s life in a whim, in this case the rakyat. Rights to vote might be a democratic practice but at the end of the day we are still voting an emperor to govern us. In this case, the only difference we get to choose our emperor very five years.
An aspiring politician therefore can be construed as an individual that actually wanted to control and dictate the life of many more human beings deemed not-able-to-function-without-being-lead. To prove this point, look at political parties and their rhetoric “we must be voted into power to ensure the best are given back to the people” and “to enable us to help the people, we must be given absolute majority to pass legislation”. The question we should ask as a rakyat, “what makes you better than us that we should vote you into office to control us?” and “why can’t we lead ourselves and need you to sacrifice your precious time to do it for us?”
To drive the nail to the coffin, just take a look at the politicians in Malaysia and find one that can take constructive criticism and do not act with holier than thou mentality. And also maybe a poor politician living in a hut and grows vegetables for a living. Sad to say, all new aspiring idealistic politicians started out noble but end up power crazy to the point of thinking himself among the immortals in the end. All they do is to rally the rakyat behind them to show their might and trounce their detractors to submission. Power really corrupts and that is a proven fact.
In conclusion, it would be better if every rakyat register themselves as a voter and vote their own self. God bless our politician’s soul.
Lots of us normal citizens can see these politicians rising up to the podiums during election year and try to convince the voters to vote them into office. Some are seasoned veterans while some are young idealistic people hoping to make a change. No matter how different they are in terms of ideals and political stand, they always pursue the same reason to vote for them; they will help the rakyat to live a better life. Most of these politicians always refer to themselves as the servant of the rakyat. They are the servant while the rakyat are the master. How true this is? Let’s find out.
Ask a politician why we should vote for him. He will tell you by voting for him, he will be able to change the political demographic of a country and even to the extent of passing legislations and laws that govern the country. For the benefit of a doubt that sounds good if all are done in the best interest of the rakyat. However, if we analyze it further, no matter how noble their intentions are, deep down it is just a form of illusion of grandeur whereby they feel they are so powerful that they can control and change another person’s life in a whim, in this case the rakyat. Rights to vote might be a democratic practice but at the end of the day we are still voting an emperor to govern us. In this case, the only difference we get to choose our emperor very five years.
An aspiring politician therefore can be construed as an individual that actually wanted to control and dictate the life of many more human beings deemed not-able-to-function-without-being-lead. To prove this point, look at political parties and their rhetoric “we must be voted into power to ensure the best are given back to the people” and “to enable us to help the people, we must be given absolute majority to pass legislation”. The question we should ask as a rakyat, “what makes you better than us that we should vote you into office to control us?” and “why can’t we lead ourselves and need you to sacrifice your precious time to do it for us?”
To drive the nail to the coffin, just take a look at the politicians in Malaysia and find one that can take constructive criticism and do not act with holier than thou mentality. And also maybe a poor politician living in a hut and grows vegetables for a living. Sad to say, all new aspiring idealistic politicians started out noble but end up power crazy to the point of thinking himself among the immortals in the end. All they do is to rally the rakyat behind them to show their might and trounce their detractors to submission. Power really corrupts and that is a proven fact.
In conclusion, it would be better if every rakyat register themselves as a voter and vote their own self. God bless our politician’s soul.
