The “life threatening” behavior of many politicians

As anyone else, most politicians at first glance appears to be a nice person. Well, what do expect of a man who hides behind many masks and veils. His real inner self is not visible. Or, would you seem to know him better when you join him if he points at his home or when he invites you to his cottage or to his exclusive Yacht?

This image resemblances the prototype of contemporary politicians. A human posing as a man of flesh and blood, but armed with a shield of masks and veils (curtains) he goes through life on high chairs in the pyramidal hierarchy. Here, they support each other to be or remain in the saddle. They want to sit on a throne, served and seen by others.
In politics, it is all about how many people you back up, play the ball to each other, keep each other in the saddle, perform lip service, and know how to throw difficult tasks over the fence and force citizens or staff to fulfill them without paying them as such. Politicians know how to exclude others on embarrassing moments when someone lifts a veil or mask. Even here, they back up each other.

Many of them do – not even close – meet the criteria that management books set for the manager or a leader. They comply however, with the criteria named in the comic cartoon of Spike and Suzy in the story “The Sound Tapper” by Willy Vandersteen. The story explains how employees are tested excessively on knowledge, skills and personality while people high in hierarchy all that counts is how many and whom they know!

Citizens expect a manager, leader or politician, to be a person who has besides cognitive knowledge, many skills, and a vision for multi-years which allow him to serve society and life. The citizen in common experience the opposite, as described in previous paragraphs.

Meanwhile for most citizens it is too outrageous for words. Citizens increasingly vote with their feet. The revulsion of this egocentric behavior, which allows politicians to stay on their position or helping each other too another hierarchical position after they failed, is great.

For decades, newspapers write about the incompetence of managers. This also applies to many politicians. Too often, they leave a trail of destruction as they like to pee on every corner (territorial behavior), create projects that seem to give them the right to sit on a throne or because they are allowed to play with the purse of citizens. A purse of which they squander too much of the content.

Any normal human being already had to bleed for such behavior, this ignorance. Politicians and administrators, however, back up for each other. This allows them as individuals to continue to play this game until they retire or die. Then there is a sigh of relief among the population. Unfortunately, only short-lived.

Many political parties do not search their own heart and do not learn from the teachings the public gives them. They keep repeating this blundering oppressive behavior because they do not understand the vicious circle in which they are trapped. They cannot because they live only with their outer performance while their inside remains unexplored terrain. Due to this, they cannot communicate with citizens on equal terms. Citizens who are more often “real” persons as they have less or no veils and masks.

It seemed and seems so nice this outer performance. Their inner side is beyond them; however, they are convinced they know themselves. They are masters at justifying their masks and veils. It is a disgrace for the political party. However, the party no longer knows and understands citizens and as such does not act on behalf of the voters. The democracy is at stake by the ignorant unaware acts of these self-centered politicians.

It is good when the veils /masks drop.