by Allison Beldon-Smith

Created on: January 20, 2009

The influence of fate upon one's political choice cannot be avoided, only a fool would vote for a regime or system that would equate in their religious oppression; it's as ridiculous as asking how many Jews voted for Hitler! Would a farmer who kept bulls take up a political vocation that required he fly a red flag from the roof of his property, or join a religious sect that dictated he wear only red clothing, in my opinion self preservation must take priority over both religion and politics.

Surely commonsense must dictate that the choice of political representation a person of sound mind will make, will be for their future benifit, or at least not obstructive to them and benificial to the majority of their community. Only an idiot shoots themself in the foot! The true problem is how can the published party manifesto be measured as politically representative of the party's future plans. And furthermore what redress can be brought to bear on them, when they suddenly change their minds and we are totally stitched up. How often do we witness those in leadership ignoring their previously published and declared agenda, and find they have scrapped it to suit their future poitical whims and struggles. When this happens the voting public have no redress upon them until the next election when we can hopefully replace them for someone more honest and dependable. But is there such a decent human in all of creation who is totally honest and dependable; and surely if there is they would be mad to even contemplate a career in politics, which is a moral nightmare of manipulation, and compromise.

A good polititian is a rare and endangered breed, history reflects how those who fit the bill are usually forcefully removed by acts of violence. Hence I am very wary of all polititians for they have the power to influence the masses; in my opinion Roman wisdom still holds true "He who controls the mob controls Rome". Politics is life, all of life, and we kid ourselves if we truly think it can be easily seperated from religion. With effort a sensible divide can be maintained but it has to be upheld with constant diligence and intent, which is not easy. Quite the contrary, it is fraught with problems akin to a minefield, and the path trodden by both political and religious leaders must be appraised with each and every step least they precipitate crisis, for both areas of life can and often are overly emotive.

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