And May The Most Deserving Candidate Win

A figure of power and authority, a
personage of dignity, integrity and
uncommon intelligence and grace
to infuse the people with hope in the
future and trust that the promise the
candidate for high public office as a
civil guide and lawmaker is well placed
and worthy of the tasks at hand.

Why then, is it that those who present
as officious charlatans, prideful
mountebanks whose pasts reflect
failures of moral certitude, commissions
of grave ethical lapses, yet all is forgiven
as the rhetoric soars into implausible
denials and bombastic accusations
against others clearly their superiors.

Seldom does the rectitude of the
trustworthy and those proven to have
zealously served with distinction in
the public sphere appear to rise to
the heights of public acclaim as yet
do those skilled in oratorical
sleight-of-truth, those who spin tales
of improbable dreams become reality,
they leading the impossible way.

The temperate, insightful, focused
mind reliant on reason and resolve
to the public weal, proven by experience
dedicated to service and leadership
fails to ignite the passion of support
for lack of the charismatic flavour
of vaunted celebrity however tainted
by ignominious social violations.

In the final analysis triumph falls
to the facade of righteousness, as the
empowerment of self-interest elevates
the unworthy, disdaining the solid
candidate. What does this reflect upon
those who prove the truism that we
earn the government we injudiciously
choose to select in our fair judgement?