Irrispective of how the words come out.

Subject: Fw: Irrespective of how the words come out.

 

 

What is politics. We know the political class have a poor name in which ever society you live but is it politics which makes for the bad name rather than the human being who distorts the essence of politics.
Politics is the application of mind to secure a social economic outcome which is meant to benefit society. Without the formulation of political ideas, often based on political philosophy which merges into ideology, we wouldn't create comprehensive guide lines and formulate plans to get things done.
Socrates in his discourse was for ever peeling away at the onion, removing the layers trying to discover if the person arguing a political point could sustain his point under analysis. His dialectic method was clinical not rhetorical his aim to train the political class to examine their premise. Today we practice tautology which is the opposite. We repeat the mantras over and over as if by saying it, is the same as doing it.
Politics and the classical democratic assumption that it is a way to find the 'will of the people' is flawed since it starts with a premise that I the politician know what's best. Of course it could hardly be any other way unless you run successive referendum, putting everything to the vote (as in Switzerland) each time the political machine wants direction. I suppose so long as the questions were framed in a way that doesn't try to enlist an outcome, at least true majority rule is the will of the people or at least a majority of them.
Politicians lie. Well yes their job is on the line to convince you of their argument, they have to sweeten the pill to keep your interest and support and so deceit becomes second nature and it's that straight faced obfuscation when we yearn for a yes or no answer which infuriates us the most.

Michael Fallon comes on to defend government policy and you can see the mind turning over, turning to deflect or ignore the question, With the "urban political" working overtime you wonder what makes up the character of the person who can twist the truth to mean anything.

I suppose diplomat comes to mind, that smooth polished exterior, the glib phrases, the apparent lack of rancour, the smile.
In our ordinary lives we posses few if any of the skills of a politician or diplomat. We call a spade a spade and find intrigue difficult to stomach. We more than any understand the society we live in and it's needs and failings. Ours is not 'show time' where, as the curtain rises it's all smiles and Boheme,  a facade, a face to distort the true situation.
So for us politics is a means to an end, it represents a civilised way of addressing problems which society needs addressed.
For the politician it's a business, the business of re-election and the arcane attraction of Westminster and power.
Politicians are not the nation state, nor is the government, they are but representatives of the people who live here. Perhaps we give them too much power to much respect on the assumption that they have "our" best interests at heart when clearly they have 'their' own interests at the centre of all their actions and statements irrespective of how the words come out.