Chapter Thirty Seven: A Politics of No Return

/ politics, an academic study of

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A few people would reasonably know if something is not the right time, whether they'd be looking at how trees slowly shed leaves during autumn when winter is about to come, or if there is something off-putting with the political climate when politicians behave in the most suspicious way; however, there is you, like the sensitive others, you eventually notice what was going on. You know something is wrong in the circumstances, like all the others who think like yourself.

But even fewer people would summon all the courage to say something that might offend the establishment by vehemently challenging its policies and the authority of the appointments, only to end up being charged with high treason or other high crimes. Politics, after all, is just a game of deception, and nothing more. Keep out of reach of children.

The Commission on Appointments, with all its power and glory, did not journey through history without its share of controversy. It's past has been challenged with so much discontent, and more than one hundred years that it faced opposition at home. It has been the Commission's solemn task to defend itself in times of upheavals and political distress, when power struggles at the parochial level or at the national interest permeates within the fabric of public discourse, and then resolved either by brute force or diplomacy.

Of course it was never easy to try to exist, and remain to do so, by constantly defending the Constitution, even though a peaceful means may never be achieved when public clamor demands it from the Commision when grievances are unmet with unrealistic expectations or inconvenient realities. It was in this stage of its life that the Commish Guards earned its brutal, but honest, reputation. To defend the appointments, a show of force is needed.

Now, everything is happening again. Today. A constant struggle within the social sphere that affects the status quo, presumably to redress complaints, against dominance of power within the internal mechanisms of the Commission, and solve the most pressing problems in the well functioning of society. The most powerful realms will not hesitate to defend its interests, and still get away with it just by using its undue influence. That is simply how politics works. And there is simply no return.

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