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The Agendum

Posted on 12/10/2011 by admin

Every political party has an agenda. So what, that’s the nature if politics it is hardly worth mentioning. Except of course by being the nature of politics it leads us to question if that is exactly the weakness of politics.

Agenda come in all shapes and sizes but in essence they all do the same thing: they speak to and arise from one particular view point, one section of society. Sometimes like Fascism, it is easy for the majority to assent or dissent but sometimes like political parties in the Western world it becomes harder to wholly dissent or assent. That is because there is some blurring of the boundaries but the fact remains that none of these parties ever speaks for the whole country. This is not because they don’t want to – they think for the period of time they hold power that is exactly what they do – but because they do not reflect the entirety of the country’s aspirations or wishes.

They, in fact, represent partisan viewpoints. In a tribe of a hundred, ten people not being represented is not of much import, but in a  country of sixty million, twenty million not being satisfied leads to civil war. Civil wars are not all bloody, some occur when large numbers people are not listened to or their views are not reflected in the legislation.

Civil society must teach its leaders to be all-inclusive.

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