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Elections best scam: Invented by the people, for the people

This election season lets us understand what entails in this process. It's an impasse between a rock and a hard place. We expect sanity from insane people, loyalty from treacherous people, we appoint stupid people to make intelligent decisions for us.🤷They in turn appoint criminals to fight and win elections for them.🤦 Politics is the only place where the criminal background on your CV gets you hired. It's a Black collar job done in the guise of white-collar. It's an unfortunate trap and we helplessly keep falling into the same vicious cycle after every five years. They say everything is fair in love and war. But in this war, many unfair, ugly, and condemnable decisions are taken in the name of the citizens, who are just a pawn in their bigger games.
Mark Twain once said, "If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." This sentence makes so much sense to me now. The world spends so much money on the scam called the elections. Black, white, green, blue every color of money is spent. Every political party, I repeat EVERY POLITICAL PARTY IN THE WORLD IS MAKING US WEAR THE IMAGINARY DUNCE CAP. (Assuming us to be fooled)
Benjamin Franklin one of the founding fathers of the United States or you can even call him the founding father of democracy, said " Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." The wolves are ready to pounce on us after every election and we the people are lamb enough to let them do that. Decades after decades.
Please note I have no beef against democracy. I am glad to be part of a democratic system because we have no other options. Do we? communism, dictatorship Nah! These dogmas are worse than democracy. Let me tell you why. Openly criticizing government, media, politics, policies, and system of government(democracy) forget about that. We democratic citizens are used to criticizing so much that we really can't shut up now. Democracy is the only gig we got! What we lambs can do is choose a credible set of wolves, who can be held accountable for their actions. Who are ready to rectify their mistakes and assume they throw away the big bad wolves. So vote for the best and let fate seal the rest.

Swati Iyer

(Iyerwrit)

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