political leaders

In my younger days, I had great respect for leaders, specifically political leaders. I used to believe that they make our life better and that they have ideas and ideologies that can transform societies. As I grew older, although my interest in politics remains intact, I left with no respect for any political leaders. Political leaders represent nothing in their life, but their self-interests and their greed for power. They justify their every act of unethical compromise and criminal acts in their life for power as the essential price that we expected to pay for our ideology. The achievement of their greed and power, they will articulate and convince us as the triumph of our faith, so much so that they will make us sacrifice our faith in humanity and become zombies, who can hate or kill a fellow human being for their race, religion, caste, language and politics, to retain these leaders' rights to remain in their position. They will convince us that, their luxurious living in position and power, is the victory of our poverty and their ability to remain in that position is governance. They will have no morality, ethics, principles or any human values left in them once they reach their aspired positions of power. Furthermore, they will collectively represent what a human being should never be. Over a period in history, these monsters with no moral and ethical values have turned every possible society in this world into their constituencies that believe worthiness in terms of positions of power and possessions of greed in such a system is the most essential achievement of the citizen, and in turn, our normalised blue color and white color crimes in our attempt to achieve those positions become as the unavoidable "valued" reality. We start celebrating this process of our dehumanisation as the leadership quality or achievement of our lives and thereby the circle of social degeneration of the society presided over by these political leaders in power, becomes complete.

We don't realise the enormity of this degeneration until we do make attempts to reflect upon and evaluate the eagerness of the youth to spend their hard-earned money and life on drugs to become unconscious or insane. We don't realise what we have become as human beings, until somebody comes and tells us simple facts of life, such as "tell truth", "love your neighbour" and so on and so forth, that become gospels of life and those who say become messiahs. We are not shocked anymore to believe that paying a few thousand rupees to people to take a course on some method of breathing will make us happy or pay a few lakhs of rupees to do a few days of courses on some management tools called spiritual engineering will make us a person with inner bliss!

As one should reject or have no value for the political leaders for this monumental erosion of values in society and its degeneration, at the same time, one should not stop loving and respecting politics for its ability to question the power, and powerful, and make them accountable for their misdeeds. Let us not forget that politics and politics for power are two completely different things.