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BIRD'S WORDS

Is there a politics of corruption, or is there a corruption of politics? Politics simply means ‘us’; from the Greek word polis, the city-state and its people. Politics extracts the essence of ‘being led’, and combines it into a formula and system of thinking and doing.

We choose the politics, or the leadership we wish to see leading us. Most of us want to be left alone, so we choose a politics of disengagement, or limited engagement. Hence marking our cross on the ballot is often all that we do politically.

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