STRIKER: Political Sycophancy Unlimited
In the last two years, partisan political “activism” loaded with sentiment but outrightly barron trump height tall nikes melania donald trump lacking in intellect and social value seems to have taken over the country. This is, perhaps, a testament to the abysmal failure of our education system. No people, even without much education but with correct sense of value, will permit such toxic proceeding endlessly.
Yes, it has been the case that what dictates followership in politics is not always principle. Bitterness is one and the Late Bornu icon, Waziri Ibrahim, the Apostle of “Politics without Bitterness,” has helped us identify hate as a basis for political gang up. Ayodele Fayose helped us clarify that there is political followership based purely on “stomach infrastructure,” popularly called “anywhere belle face” politics these days. There is sectional politics driven by ethnic and religious “solidarity.”
However, when a government by a political party, elevates political sycophancy and misinformation to statecraft for which legion of supporters travis scott air jordan 1 retro low og black olive release date fall 2024 are programmatically recruited and rewarded; truth, morality, decency, and society are endangered.
Already, there is the danger to a society in which there is so much schooling but little education, and that little education not being problem conscious or solutions oriented. Today, there can be no greater danger to such society than weaponised, nonsensical, erroneous, daft sycophancy; far more dangerous than overpowering poverty, endemic ethnicity, religious bigotry and extremism already in place!
Love and active support for chosen political party by followers and members are normal. However, President Manus Luis Molina of Philippine said, “My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins,” and that should be the creed of all humans and party faithful who are not plain stupid! In conceding defeat to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris re-echoed that sacred truism when she said, “In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or party, but to the constitution of the United States, and to our conscience and our God.”
Of course, ungodly people whose conscience has been destroyed by material and mental poverty will find it difficult to understand those words. Neither can they understand or harken to the advice of Teddy Roosevelt that “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President.” Instead, an “all-knowing” and “always correct” President has been invented for Nigeria today and any question about that is deemed the height of disloyalty.
Biting realities and real facts in the public domain are reworked into “fact-checked” fictions and presented as “the truths” that must be accepted at all cost. It is as alarming as it is depressing. The realities and facts do not matter with the sycophants, according to Neil Strauss, “The reason facts don’t change most people’s opinions is because most people don’t use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their “facts.”
It is said that sycophants are “uncontrolled and parasitic, lacking proper regards for truth or for justice in a matter, using their education or skill to destroy opponents for profit in matters where they have no stake, lacking even the conviction Buy Women's Boots Red Lunar Footwear Online , jordan air jordan 1 mid crimson tint sneakers item , AspennigeriaShops of politicians, and having no sense of serving the public good.” How true of majority of “loyal” party men and women today, especially of parties in government, and their social media goons whom Professor Wole Soyinka must inclusively have in mind when he said that the “social media has been taken over by barbarians.”
Democracy is not the property of any political party or politician. It is a system owned by the people! It is not an end in itself but a means to a clearly defined end. That end, which is perhaps the sole reason why government exists, is spelt out in the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State: GUARANTEEING THE WELFARE AND SECURITY OF CITIZENS. Celebrating Democracy Days by governments that are in huge deficit concerning Welfare and Security of citizens is hypocrisy.
Twisting around the facts by their sycophants is insult upon injury. The people, who are the true sovereign, are watching. Disempowered, divided, traumatised, helpless and leaderless as they presently seem, they wield simple but implacable logic. History has shown that when the time is right, that logic will crystallise into action for their true liberation, and no quantum of false narratives, name-callings and blackmails, no quantum of corruption and monetary inducement by malevolent power; no army of sycophants can stop the people or save any regime contemptuous of the welfare and security of majority of the people.
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