Politics And Corruption 2
The
word Politics is singular though the letter-'s' at the end of the word
suggests usage in plural number. A politician also usually thinks in the
interests of self and questions 'what is in it for me?'
Possession
of power becomes an addiction. A person cannot shake it off so easily.
We can see in the history that many of the leaders wanted to get power
in spite of the threats to their lives were faced by them. A warrior’s
returning home from the war filed in the olden days was not assured but
still they went to fight with the enemy forces.
What
anybody can achieve when the very life is in danger in the process of
the pursuit for leadership or power? But still they did it. Life is at
stake and their private life loses privacy leaving real personal life to
the minimum most but still a fight for the leadership is always taken
up. That is why it is called addiction. The addiction is so deep that
it passes on to their offspring through DNA and also due to the
environment in which they are brought up. It can be seen in Indian
politicians’ families. A son or wife takes over if the active politician
is indisposed.
When
getting power becomes their aim of life and an unshakable addiction, the
purpose cannot be more than personal interest. Their endeavor will
always be to hold the seat and pass on orders. A word spoken or an
action taken or a promise made or praising someone or ridiculing someone
will only be in view of the political gain out of it.
Power without money to support is cheap and money without power is weak and vulnerable.
Power
should be backed up by money so that supporters can be satisfied if
buying them is a rude way of putting it. In order have sufficient funds
to rule the people; it is a simple mathematic calculation that amount
spent should be less than amount collected. Taxes were collected to the
maximum and spent minimum on the welfare of the people. That leaves a
surplus always which in the era of kings’ rule made rich treasury of the
kingdom on which the king used to have total rights. They used get all
the luxuries money could buy.
As the
politicians do not have direct right on the treasuries at the present
times they are inclined to get some cuts from the expenses made through
them which are bribes or unearned commissions that are called kick backs
in the modern usage.
Many of
the leaders or politicians are not bothered about their life or small
personal life they have but they want to have more and more money
without knowing what can be done with that. In the process of it a
politician forgets the calculation of a man’s need in terms of money. He
wants to gather so much of money that many generations can live without
having any activity to earn for living. That is where a corruption
takes place.
Like
kings did in olden times, a politician cannot take bribes directly in
the present times because of which he needs some layers to go into the
corruptive practices. The persons who pay bribes try to get it back from
the work they do. That way the corruption is going into the society at
different level at different scales.
A wrong thing makes it go into multiple wrong deeds to cover the foot prints leading to the corruption they resorted to.
The saying has come that a person gets caught in the crime of bribery can get away paying bribe!
Getting
into the roots of bribery, corruption and wrong things to get and
maintain power is not to justify their acts but to look for the remedy
with which the society can be made clean and healthy as the corruption
of a politician is not limited to the one who resorts to it but also
creeps into the society to make many others in the society to turn
corrupt.
We will continue the discussion….
-SriJa
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