What is the litmus paper of patriotism and good politician?
In my opinion, politics is not just a job to hold or seize the government of a country! It is and should be an important job to govern a country properly.
When you look at the mirror from a nose distance, you cannot see anything. In order to see, you need to move a little away from the mirror. Life teaches this to each of us almost when we are babies. Indeed, in order not to be buried in the events in which we live, there are countless benefits of taking ourselves outside and looking at the events from the outside. I would like you to evaluate the subject I will explain now from this perspective.
Politics and Homeland are two very important words. Because of their meaning and importance, we need to be very careful when writing and speaking. Politics is a word of Arabic origin. Its common meaning is "horse training".
In reality, politics is essentially the art of governing. Nevertheless, even this description is not enough to explain the subject of politics. Or so it seems to me.
In my opinion, politics is not just a job done to hold or seize the government of a country! It is and should be an important job to govern a country properly. Politics is not done only to be in power, to benefit from the rents of power. Politics is done in order to bring one's own truths to power. If you push the truth aside, take off your shirt and then come to power, this is not politics, it is something else. And in reality, this is exactly what has been done in our country for decades. Isn't this our bitter reality? The name of this work is to undertake the subcontracting of politically wrong affairs, to sell oneself, to surrender to the rentiers. It is also feeding a little on rent-seeking. It is even creating rent and sharing it. Where is the so-called 'governance' in this?
This is what is known in our country, what is called 'being in power', which our people have now taken for granted. This has now become a political tradition. The place that comes to power. The power elected by the nation, which says that those who hold honey lick their fingers, naturally do this. Since this is what we do on average, no matter which one of us is put in the seat of power, no one finds it strange that those in power 'eat'. And those who do do not understand. Even those of us who say that they eat too little are among us. If it were me, I would take it with his amud. There are even those of us who say platitudes like "I will serve for free". In short, this is who we are.
In fact, we can also say that politics is the competition for Power and Leadership between individuals and groups. As the number of people who support you grows, you sometimes get lost in the fact that their interests diversify and the ideas and interests of people within the inner group contradict. Unless, of course, you are a good liar. If the framework of your politics is confined within the definition we have criticised above, you will eventually fail to remain Honest and Moral or you will be defeated.
So, if we put forward such a definition about politics, why do we want to do politics, why do we long to be in political life? The answer to this question is already given between the lines above. You know it too.
In the final analysis, in my opinion, politics is nothing but a big lie if it is done without love for the motherland. A politics and politician without patriotic love is like a bus and its driver without an engine. If someone pushes it, it walks. In fact, if someone pushes and drives such a bus, he does not leave the steering wheel control to the driver.
Love for the homeland is the engine power of correct and honest politics.
What about the love of homeland? Is it only the love of stone and earth? This is something that only those who feel it can understand. It means first of all to love your homeland and all living creatures on it. Patriotism is to love the people living in the homeland, i.e. people, nation, race, women, men, children, whatever you call them. In my eyes, a politician is a person who fights to bring to power the most beautiful and right things for all of them, the most free, peaceful and happy picture.
Politics is an ongoing war of varying intensity. In essence, a politician is a warrior in the political arena. "The period when the enemy is at its most rampant will herald the approach of victory," says the wise philosopher Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The name of the party, whether it is right or left wing is not important to me. I believe that those who guide themselves with love for the homeland should emerge victorious from the ballot box, the racing line of politics.
Stay with respectful love.