East African Gazette
While it remains a reality that people become crazy when there is something to do with politics on the table, it is also true that the excitement is usually immeasurable resulting in a party of swindlers and a dance of clowns.
Society happily chooses leaders with fruitful expectations only to see them involved in dirty entanglements instead of playing their substance towards what their respective communities demand of them. They play it well when it comes to mind games that distract people from understanding who they are.
To continue pressing forward, any society must conduct a thorough examination of its behaviors, leaders, and standards, to track its progress. What we all want to achieve in a given time matters a lot and the means we use play a vigorous protagonist. We can all go against each other because of slight differences but the end goal is to make our societies better.
A political thief steals your knowledge, your future, your passion, your dignity, your freedom
However, as societies grow and people advance, it is worthwhile to acknowledge the existence of two main thieves; an ordinary thief and a political one. An ordinary thief steals your car, your money, your phone, among others and a political thief steals your knowledge, your future, your passion, your dignity, your freedom, etc.
The difference between the two is that the ordinary thief targets and chooses to steal from you. But the political thief is a product of your own choice.
The most important difference is that an ordinary thief is always tracked and arrested by police but a political thief is always protected and escorted by the police. He instills a strong conviction into your mind and makes you forget your ability to do anything for yourself.
The travesty of belief in our current society is that many people believe that they can’t do or achieve anything without politicians’ effort because of previous kindness they showed them. The politician uses the same excuse to continue exploiting societal norms and beliefs. They make people believe that without him, nothing can be done perfectly.
What is so exasperating is that the political thief steals your mindset, making you ideologically lame, forget who you are and become so hostile to the rest of the people who come closer to you in search for help at times and see them as threat forgetting that we were all created to depend on one other. How can we explain this or overcome it? Because greed has barricaded our souls and too much neediness has made us cynical.
Due the political thieves, we have divided ourselves
Due to the influence of the political thieves, we have divided ourselves, we no longer take the ideas of others because they believe in what we don’t. What is so deadly is that we are here fighting over each other while he is busy raping the constitution, Culture, educational sector, introducing social business subjects, and removing political subjects from the syllabus thus taking the economic structures to the grave!
Surprisingly, whoever tries to sniff his or her nose is swiftly shut down, and branded terrorist upon prosecution. Such cases are considered treasonous.
Society is blindly forced to hate and arrest the ordinary thief, thinking he is the real deal hence not progressing. All this happens because of the disunity among us and we stock ourselves with less developmental information that would have led us to the top.
The Political thief has equipped all the soldiers with heavy machinery to silence those who try to oppose him with different ideologies. The modern political thief can no longer see that we are in the fourth industrial revolution that needs fewer machine guns but more reasoning. Gathering around the table and exchanging brilliant ideas from various minds, but instead deciding to impose force on everything and introducing new laws that are too inhumane.
To any person who wants leadership and to secure the future of the nation, he should remember that enslaving people and their properties isn’t good because a person who uses force must be afraid of reasoning.
Forget about the differences that exist, we are the people who will bring happiness to the world and make it a better place for everyone. Why should we accept the lies of this political thief?
We should come together, be united, do away with regional or national barriers, and forget greed, hate, and intolerance. By galvanizing our efforts, we can fight for the world of reason. The political thief will be no more!
The writer is a New Vision Journalist