Searching for Truth in Politics

Politics and truth are words rarely undivided. The term "political truth" may indeed be a contradiction. A definition of political merry: [n: Poly "many" more tics "blood-sucking parasites"] suggests a contempt for the people exercise power, or at least skeptical about the ability to manage the collective. We have many years of cautious, unscrupulous accomplice, and condescension virulent could avoid the policy of cooperation, collaboration and interest to the greater benefit in the sense of competition, the rhetoric (and sometimes physical) and the war in favor of special interests, where the highest bidder tends to guarantee the price.

Like Plato in the Republic wrote: "Mankind will never be an end to the trouble to come ... the lover of wisdom, to maintain political power, or those in power will ... the lover of wisdom. "A virtual impossibility in modern politics than those who are too smart to engage in politics by those who are not punished (even a thought of Plato) regulated.

Tis the season, but now - the season of experts and politicians - the midterm elections fast approaching. There is a time for the ether to cope with ill-conceived presumption embellished exaggeration to speak of blame all complexions, pompous, lively discussions and fantastic stories, but hardly a grain of naked little realities, to fill in a word : the truth.

A typical message, delivered with conviction by a hard-core candidate for Congress goes something like this: "If I am elected, I will stimulate the economy, create jobs, reduce spending out of control, the U.S. received foreign interventions that protect the environment, education and reconstruction of health care setting. "Normally just the beginning. These are ambitious goals of cutting taxes, if the size of government, strengthening the private sector and the realignment of the earth's rotation can be achieved - neither victims nor the voter engagement is necessary. Now it's just me, or if you have trouble finding the truth in this?

Each candidate's selling snake oil, here is a picture of his omnipotence overweight either suffers from a delusion: they do not know how our society, economy, our system of government, the Constitution or Congress, work, or they openly intend to manipulate and deceive. A candidate for promotion to such a promise knowing the masses are prone to all imaginative proposals require nothing of them, while offering the possibility of the perpetrators of the hard times stick HUG - the other guys.

The Devil's Dictionary offers, "Politics is the clash of interests masquerading as a clash of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. "Einstein reinforces the false pretense of governing," All of us who care about peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware of the influence of little reason and honest good will exert on events in politics. "

Now see if you know what I see in America and the world today, you can as I think it's time to lay bare our souls is. To dig our way out of the mess we have, we need to address the truth unhindered. It's time to call a spade a spade. We need the truth back to politics.

Shakespeare wrote so eloquently: "There is a tide in the affairs of the people that occur at the flood, leads on to fortune; avoid missed once in the shallows and miseries." A wave of change is increasing but no way experts suggest. It is now time to take stock and take action - not for the sake of a few, but prosperity for the greatest number.

We consider ourselves to think as a great patriot. And even if we trust the "system" that we lost a lot of faith in this country. We must raise the tide of change address the challenges ahead, honest and open. The truth is sometimes difficult to digest, but we have to stomach. We must work together, work together and focus our collective talents and energy to the task. The American dream is not dead. We have the ability to see with new vision, hearing, more clearly and deal with a new goal. a path of hope, a path of good will, and finally a path to prosperity - coupled with a little truth in this campaign period with a real interest in finding our way, we'll start a new path. When we search in this political season of truth.