By now, poor people ought to understand that democracy is not here to serve their interests.
You are primarily the grease used to lubricate the engine of the campaign. You only have usefulness for as long as your situation is deployed by aspirants to demonstrate their empathy and incite outrage.
Beyond elections, your greatest reward is palliatives at best. And if you are lucky, patronage.
I have not seen many politicians who genuinely want poverty to vanish, because when that happens, they lose their core campaign power and become exposed.
Average politicians like to emphasize how much suffering there is in the land. "The poor are suffering and hungry" is a common rhetoric that generate outrage. It rarely comes with a workable solution other than, "Give me power and your life will change for good."
Like I always say, the poor are fantastic marketing material for elections. Democracy itself is for the harnessing of poor people's grievances for voting advantage.
To demystify politicians, the poor will have to empower themselves one way or the other without waiting for government. Reject palliatives, desire for quick fix and put efforts towards communal wealth creation.
The politicians who have nothing to offer will be forced to look deeper into issues rather than use your suffering as a campaign tool.
Nobody has power over a man who is in control of his daily livelihood, aside from men and women who are deeply ensconced in the echo chambers of social media.
-Isqil Najim
#echoesofmymind
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