{"id":2499,"date":"2016-09-01T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2016-09-01T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:14:08","slug":"political-poem-among-politicians-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/political-poem-among-politicians-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL POEM: Among Politicians For Sail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the art of politics<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>We are the wind<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Awe that madders<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>To those who sea<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Among politicians for sail<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Transcending them to helm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In their infernal riggings<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And whatever weigh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As such politics<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blows<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>And how ever along winded<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wee will<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prevail<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sow go a head<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Win<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Be my gust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q: What can transcend the riggings in the political system? \u00a0A: The strong winds of political movements derived from the consent (or resistance) of the people. \u00a0Perhaps the most reliable characteristic of politicians is their ability to do most anything to\u00a0gain power or maintain power. \u00a0Politics is often referred to as the art of compromise. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Power-Requires-Consent-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/ProductImages\/peace_anti_war_political_public_health_pictures\/Power_Requires_Consent.gif\" alt=\"Power Requires Consent POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>Politics is as often at the heart of selling out. \u00a0Power requires consent, the consent of the people. \u00a0This is the foundation for\u00a0nonviolent resistance and noncooperation with evils in society. \u00a0Fortunately, the malleable morality of politicians can be harnessed by the exercise of power directly by the people, without relying on simply moral appeals. \u00a0In the body politic, the moral state of the state is mediated by the people either exercising their values which manifest political realities and shape power, or by the people delegating moral behavior to politicians (sic) and\/or relinquishing morality altogether. \u00a0The people define the political realities by which politicians must navigate. \u00a0The pragmatic malleability of politicians makes them far better suited to follow than lead, to reflect current political realities rather than challenge and change them. \u00a0The notion that power is fundamentally derived from political elites is mistaken and not what the founders of the constitution understood of governance as derived from the consent of the people. \u00a0Likewise, moral behavior is derived from each person as a moral agent, a responsibility that cannot be relinquished and a privilege that each human shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Peace-Signs\/Buttons\/Be-the-Change-You-Want-to-See-in-the-World-PEACE-QUOTE-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Great-Quotes\/Peace-Quotes\/Peace-Quote-18.gif\" alt=\"Be the Change You Want to See in the World -- PEACE QUOTE BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Authentic leadership, by being the change you want to see in the world, is often punished by the powers that be of the status quo, whose interest is in maintaining things the way they are, that is, to their own advantage over others. \u00a0Your resistance and its equal and opposite force applied by the powers that be is exactly the measure by which your values are valued. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Find-out-just-what-any-people-will-quietly-submit-to-and-you-ve-found-out-the-exact-measure-of-injustice-which-will-be-imposed-on-them-Frederick-Douglass-quote-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Find-out-just-what-any-people-will-quietly-submit-to-and-you-ve-found-out-the-exact-measure-of-injustice-which-will-be-imposed-on-them-Frederick-Douglass-quote.gif\" alt=\"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you've found out the exact measure of injustice which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass quote POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>More simply put, your values are values exactly to the extent that you\u00a0are willing to pay a price for them. \u00a0Many good things in life come cheap, either through the work of others or the grace of God. \u00a0The luck of the draw in possessing such\u00a0good things that come to us without us personally paying the full cost is what is often called privilege. \u00a0Good things are, well, good. \u00a0But, when we haven&#8217;t paid the full cost, or worse yet, someone else is involuntarily paying the cost for you, such an imbalance in the balance sheet requires moral action to assure fair treatment of others. \u00a0It is exactly such\u00a0imbalances in the balance sheets that fundamentally amoral ideologies such as capitalism cannot produce balance. \u00a0In fact,\u00a0amoral ideologies such as capitalism act to leverage inequalities and unfairness into further\u00a0inequalities and unfairness. \u00a0In short, it takes moral force, truth force, what Gandhi referred to as satyagraha, to set the world right. \u00a0Those experiencing the short end of\u00a0inequalities and unfairness most fully experience the material conditions suited to such enlightenment. \u00a0Those experiencing the long\u00a0end of\u00a0inequalities and unfairness find that their the material conditions are rife with easy denial and low-cost rationalizations suited to\u00a0maintaining their advantage, their advantage over others. \u00a0This is another way of describing the &#8220;preferential option for the poor&#8221; in liberation theology, recognizing that the dispossessed are naturally better positioned to exercise moral leadership since their personal interests and social justice interests are better aligned. \u00a0Surely, the poor have their own special set of temptations to choose the low road in morality. \u00a0However, the privileged are only required to give up privilege over others for justice&#8217;s sake, which is a nominal sacrifice compared to coping well or poorly inside chronic injustices. \u00a0This is particularly true since the powers that be exact a price disproportionately higher to the dispossessed than what would represent a fair price for their personal, individual justice. \u00a0In other words, the dispossessed must invest in social justice to experience personal justice. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/If-you-are-neutral-in-situations-of-injustice-you-have-chosen-the-side-of-the-oppressor-Desmond-Tutu-quote-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/If-you-are-neutral-in-situations-of-injustice-you-have-chosen-the-side-of-the-oppressor-Desmond-Tutu-quote.gif\" alt=\" If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor -- Desmond Tutu quote POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>The privileged are free of such costs, and worse yet, are personally advantaged by injustice, a cruel incentive to unjust action, or more often than not, inaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Buttons\/Injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Martin-Luther-King\/Injustice-Anywhere-threat-justice-everywhere.gif\" alt=\"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere -- Martin Luther King, Jr. BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>As can be seen through the lenses of power derived through the consent of the people and the material conditions conducive to acting morally in the face of social injustices, the hope for a more just and moral world is founded in actions of solidarity with and among the disenfranchised of the world. \u00a0Expecting the privileged to relinquish their privilege &#8212; or manage the poor justly (sic) &#8212; is a lame substitute for disenfranchised peoples acting in the interest of both themselves and all people. \u00a0May we act in solidarity with one another to overturn injustice anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to browse Top Pun&#8217;s designs about <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Political\/Justice-Designs-Products-Merchandise-Store-Shop.html\">social justice<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Funny-Political-Designs-on-T-shirts-Buttons-Bumper-Stickers-T-shirts.html\">huge choice of political action issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the art of politics We are the wind Awe that madders To those who sea Among politicians for sail Transcending them to helm In their infernal riggings And whatever weigh As such politics Blows And how ever along winded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/political-poem-among-politicians-sail\/\">Continue reading <span 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