Politicians....Yuck !!

It is more than common to sense a feeling of hatred or at least indifference towards politicians among common masses. Is it a failure of democracy with inefficient leaders at top of administrative hierarchy? Or some minor incidents are hyped for vested interest giving the "netas" this critical acclaim? Clearly, no one is so omnipotent to bank upon either of these extreme conclusions. However, the least I can do is to illustrate certain ignored facts which would add some credential to this harassed "occupation".

Yes, I consider politics as an occupation having overtones of social benefit rather than devoted social service. Another of my questionable belief is that politicians, all over the democratic world has similar set of duties, and are abused for similar sounding reasons. So I would prefer to detach this article from any regional sentiments.

Now concentrating on the topic, why do u think people hate politicians? But wait...they are elected by people, then how can u conclude that people hate them? Perhaps not all of us hate those who are elected. Rather, MAJORITY of us have preferred them over other candidates. Thats the whole point: the said leader whom u hate particularly has the support of major portion of voters in his constituency. This puts u on other side of river, with minor( though may be wise) portion of voters.

Thus this leader is more concerned and connected with interest of majority. Now thats the fault(read beauty) of democracy, and wisdom has little role to play in it. Politicians are attached to mindset of majority of population, and their actions are guided by desire to increase there support base, not any pholosophy.You must see now the professionalism involved in politics.

Lets jump to certain conclusions: politicians are corrupt- well most of us ARE corrupt and wud not leave any opportunity to satisfy our greed, and politicians ARE our leaders. Most of other cited flaws in politicians can be slated across similar manner. This indicates that we CANT blame them....we have to first improve ourselves. Like we cant blame them for playing casteism in politics, for their voters tend to polarize on this issue. Regions where voters are ignorant on cast aspect, politics there is cast ignorant. You must now notice that there is little ideology involved.

Our politicians are not worthy enough? Well, they are worthy on the account that they have succesfully convinced lacs of voters to vote for them, proving their mentle for leadership. And since they are entrusted with boundless powers and responsbility, they must not be expected to excel in each and every aspect.

So then why is that politics is the most criticized occupation? Well, the answer lies in extreme public scrutiny of performance of a politician. Have u heard of any CEO/Manager of a company being harassed by general public for mere accusation, not guilty, of charges? Public expectation from politicians are too high to be met in every small respect. Miss it , and they will be criticized till hell breaks lose!! Come to think of it, much of averse public opinion gathered by politics is attributed to media and other commercial modes of entertainment like films.

This is the other side of picture...and I dont think I need to say something about the much highlighted aspects of a politician. But now u may wonder where is the flaw in our administrative system. Answer is:US. Yes, general youth mentality is too averse to politics to join it. And the democratic administration is set on belief that the brightest minds will come forward to lead, which is not happening anymore. The most aspired youth career is Management, for enormous respect and dignity it offers in long term. But I would argue that administration is synonymous to management (what does MBA stands for?) , and politics is nothing but administration of a giant company, named Government.

Summarizing, I would say that criticizing something is too cowardly and should be left for much mature, leisurely persons. If you have some point to prove, then prove it by example. Rather than finding faults wid present politicians, join politics and teach them how futuristic decisions are to be taken, how public interest can be attained within purview of ideology and wisdom. We, the youth, are setting new trends in every field, why leave politics?