Beyond the Petty Politics (Partisanship)

The original great idea for establishing government, was to create a body and forum for the discussion of the larger vision of life -- and not so that every special interest group could dominate and tyrannize any and every other. Those were the reasons, the founders of the new society of freedoms, dissolved the old tyranny -- in which one group had the right to subjugate every other, even if they claimed that as the divine will of God(s).

For about two hundred years, that idea held sway and largely seemed to work, until some decided they could appear to be the “will” of the people, by suppressing all the voices not in on the current conspiracy to seize exclusive power and control. Now that special interest, is not surprisingly, the government workers themselves -- who no longer see themselves as the servants, but have come to regard themselves as the new masters of the government that should exist to serve primarily themselves.

Such abuses come easily when there is a notion of “entitlement” -- to be in power and control as long as one lives, and it no longer matters how they got there in the first place. It is now just their right to continue for as long as they wish to -- at the top, without answering to any review. “Power is its own right,” they are fond to say -- until one day, for some known and unknown reasons, they themselves find themselves powerless and at the mercy of (capricious) others -- and then they realize the terror of abuse of power and betrayal of trust. So every generation tries to protect itself -- from the exploitation of others, by keeping those who might do so, as weak and disabled as possible, not realizing they may be dependent on such abilities themselves, and really should be empowering that generation rather than exploiting and subjugating the weak so that a self-designated few can remain in control.

Only in that manner, is it possible to empower themselves also -- beyond the expectations they have constrained for themselves. In petty politics, the objective is to make everyone less powerful than oneself -- which has no limit, to how petty it can become until finally, the only activity and work done, is to cancel out everybody else in society -- so they cannot get ahead. Nobody gets ahead in that scheme.

A winning strategy would be to see everyone win -- even more so than oneself, because those are the people one will eventually deal or trade with, and it doesn’t hurt if they can offer the gifts of their talents unrestrained and corrupted. This is the new age of government and society -- not to keep everyone else less empowered than those in power, so that they can remain on the top forever, but to envision a society in which people are allowed and encouraged to win -- rather than they can’t be allowed to win because "it would make everybody else look bad."

Then “looking bad” becomes outlawed rather than acknowledged as the bad it truly is -- which enables one to discriminate and discover the truly good and useful, and unfailingly move in that direction. But under current advice and policies, one is told, not to be able to make such distinctions and discriminations -- which are now only allowed, to the properly designated “authorities,” who will henceforth, decide what it is everyone should think is “correct” and true -- and they will pass laws to see that it is so exclusively for their benefit.