16. Why does politics turn into violence?

This is war. As I have mentioned before, war is upon us even today and we are fighting against terrorism for instance. Politics too is concerned here and create the most scandalous issues and fights to ever break the news headlines. Why doesn't politics ever have a safe zone or quite time? It is because of the fact that politics concerns position which equals also to power. And power is a very desirable concept.

Politics turns into violence when there is too much greed and hunger for power. We create the definition of dirty politics, but politics as a concept is not at all dirty but it is the people who make it dirty. People have the natural inclination to fall for power because it can be such a temptation. Even good people who enter to work for the government become victims of corruption and manipulation, which they may have advocated against. In concerning the people, the people are the ones that are corrupt. Of course when bad officials of a government are stripped to reveal their true agendas, the people react negatively, most of the time violently. We are in a people power revolution generation where we took to the streets to protest for our rights. Some got wounded and others harmed in the process. But what is positive about it is that violence is kept to the minimum, as it should always be.

Lesson learned is that we should not be victims of the negative side of politics. It is our right to demand good service from our leaders and they are expected to perform. We accept the fact that we all make mistakes but not become complacent and oblivious to the wrong doings of others.