Sunday, April 26, 2009

leaders who overcome political attacks!

"The ambitious citizens of a republic seek in the first instance (as we have said above) to make themselves sure against the attacks, not only of individuals, but even of the magistrates. To enable them to do this, they seek to gain friends, either by apparently honest ways, or by assisting men with money, or by defending them against the powerful; and as this seems virtuous, almost everybody is readily deceived by it, and therefore no one opposes it, until the ambitious individual has, without hindrance, grown so powerful that private citizens fear him and the magistrates treat him with consideration." excerpt from Machiavelli's Discourses

The question I have is to what extent is Jacob Zuma going to protect himself from future persecution? He states that he is standing just for one term. Why? Is this a ploy so that later he can say the people want me back? Or has he been pushed so that those who want the power would emerge later? And to what extent is he sure that what they have done to Thabo Mbeki would not be done to him?

Questions questions! Only time will tell!
To quote Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. So how true is this going to be for our New President And Crew


1 comment:

  1. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

    quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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