I love the fact that politics is now
taking a whole different dimension, gradually grinding away from the old
primeval assumptions. The old dogmas that propelled politics in the wrong
direction, now like an old slice of fabric, they are progressively tending
towards becoming vestige and utterly irrelevant in the present day. Gone are
the days when feigned charisma, plutocracy or any other phony attributes could irrevocably contour your way into
political sovereignty, today the ordeal is a different piece of cake. We want
to narrow down to the grades you got in school and whether they were genuinely
credited or “river road made” and we
don’t even stop at that, presently we even dig further to establish whether the
papers you presented for your MBA were you own work or an upshot of plagiarism.
In regard to the latter if you are
eying a political post in any future and still in the process of your
education, viper tool is one of the paraphernalia you desperately need to have
in the list of your software’s. At a mere student inclined evaluation
plagiarism hardly looks any sinister or devious but that what it is. It got all
it takes to bring you down form the top of the political pinnacle to grass in a
wink of an eye. Long before you even notice you cannot be trusted even in your
own profession because as one father Augustine once put it, “when regard for
truth is broken down or slightly weakened, everything becomes doubtful”. It’s
when it gets to such a level that the risk of the whole endeavor can
sufficiently be understood and with hardy mutilations to show it all.
John Walsh the democrat who is eying the position of
senator among the Montanans in USA, presents a good example though far from
home but a pretty good illustration of the new shape and direction that
politics is gradually taking. Walsh has been caught in a plagiarism
scandal of a paper he submitted in the United States Army war college back
in 2007. Probably aware of the implications this could have on his political
career, he has suggested that his behavior could have been shaped by a mental
health challenge he suffered while on combat duty in Iraq. While, we know them
for giving excuses, promises that cannot stand the test of time and faked
characters to maneuver crowd expectation but Mr. Walsh, this was too vague and
naïve.
Bringing the point home, we know of those endless
court injunctions that have marred the political arena all inclined to one
direction, authenticity of academic papers. In the very present past there has
been a notable number of legislators who have been served with writs to go and
defend the candidness of their degrees and others with such cases still
pending. This in itself is an evidence of the simmering revolution in politics
which is taking a global shape and we should be more than willing to embrace it
so as to give a new look to the already dented politics antics.
The point here is, the illogical assumptions that
were initially vital ingredients of what I would like to call political broth
are making a slow and painful slide to irrelevancy and so are the partakers of
the same. The indefensible timeworn dogma that politics is a ‘dirty game’ has
now lost its ground and dramatically shattering away. The ‘game’ is taking a
promising positive overhaul and the big question now is, do we have the right
players to take up the positions and play the game right?!
