Principles Or Votes: Which Leg To Stand On?

Monday, August 26, 2019

How are politicians to behave when, having found themselves in fundamental disagreement with each other before, and loathed each other’s politics, now find themselves in the same corner eating from the same bowl all in the name of numbers and votes.

Politics hasn’t been the cleanest profession in the history of professions. We’ve admired and respected politicians with integrity, who stood up for what they believed in and never compromised on their principles.

The evolution from ‘principled politics’ to ‘interests-now, principles sometimes or later’ presents a dilemma of sorts for both voters and politicians.

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