There is none so cynical and yet so
impressionably gullible than a voting
population prepared against all previous
experience to believe in the promises a
politician proffers as answers to the
questions that bedevil an electorate. A
previous executive office holder may have
governed wisely and well but he has become
stale and predictable leading the fickle
electors to search for a replacement to
carry on his good works and in the process
be charismatic and personable, a point of
pride on the world stage. And so the transition.
Following which arrives the dismantling
of all the predecessor government achieved
but carried out with glossy promises and
smiles reflecting 'sunny ways'. Where the
stale governor of the nation had been a man
of great probity his replacement's casual
regard for ethics and truth take central stage.
Still a charming persona and protestations
of innocence of deceit carry the day. Until
one day the assaulted sensibilities of the
people descend to the dungeon of disappointed
rage and a revolt brews, insurrectionists
march in unstoppable convoys claiming their
rights and prepared to guillotine their choice
who has exiled himself to a safe haven as he
preens and postulates this too shall pass.
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