Political animals

Yookoso!
Face it. There is no such a thing as a straight shooter politician, they all pretend to work for public interests. You know, politicians deceit. Especially those from the left…and those from the right…and those for the centre too. Basically every politician might be deceitful, but that is only part of the story.
You have to consider that in most countries, especially in the west where the expert political animal exist, politician is a class that rules the masses through deception, or they will not be elected.
Politicians pretend to have been elected by the public, and the public pretends not to know that the ‘have been elected by the public’ bunch pretends to represent the public’s interest. And those politicians that you think do not pretend, in reality have mastered the pretend technic so much that it seems they are serious about politics, but some tickles here and there will expose their truth.
I am not saying that every politicians is a master of disguiss, I know it, but since I can not prove it I shall keep my opinion to myself.
But again that misses the point. The point is that the public should not measure its political environment by measuring the rulers of the moment. Is that the whole picture? If the current government is rough, full of liers and suckers, it means the political class is rotten and anti-democratic?
What about us, the public? Is not the government a reflection of the public?
What can anybody say about everyday man? How does a plebeyan behaves on his every day activities?
I come to think that states have the government they deserve. For instance, the rich and wealthy states tell us that this state and that state has a rotten government that oppreses its people. So we, the public, must accept that they go to help those innocent souls, get rid of the rich oppresor, and replace the local governor with poor working class fellow that understands the importance of democracy. A person who will bring modernity and clarity to government affairs.
But in my fourty something years as part of the general public in different states that have gave me home, I have never seen that the life of those rescued states betters. Mostly it has not worsen, but the status quo is naturally considered as inanimobility. If the state remains the same after been saved, it means that it is worse. Because if there is no change how can anybody consider that as an improvement?
The ‘rich and wealthy states’ may said that if the axis of evil are not removed from power, the life of the governed would be worsen daily, but there is no prove that it will if nothing is done about it.
We, the public, are responsible when things go wrong. And we share that responsability with our state’s political class, because we permit them to reach to that point. We, the public, may try to play the victims, but we have what we deserve.
We live with the monster we created.