What Politics Should Be

“A Man alone could never live For this to achieve, a God must he be or A beast”* But Since Man is neither a God nor a beast but Rather something in between, who is struggling the one to become, The other is to avoid, Man, in search of the company of other men constantly is, In order to stay alive Thus Into a social being, he is transformed for His survival to achieve Soon, however, the difficulties of his choice see and Fast he realizes, Living with other men, the task isn’t easy at all, for He has, with others to coexist and with them collaborate Since there is a lot of disagreement, For what is right, For what is wrong, For how things have to be done And For how all men should behave So A set of rules has Man set forth to facilitate his Everyday life: To live To work To learn To build and To protect what he holds so dear Thus The man finally transforms himself from a social being to A political one, the fact that has brought all of us to Where we stand today! However A politician ought the best of the citizens to be and For the common good to toil He should on virtue’s anvil to be forged first,**, *** If we wish him our society to lead and Justice equally to apply Moreover His primary concern must be the sharing of wealth That fairly has to be distributed, according to Each one’s merit And most of all, security for his nation in his heart Must be paramount For Above all interests, his country must be, Since without it Nothing of our goals could ever be achieved, Because everything we can ever be Only Our society is able to provide! © Demetrios Trifiatis 19 May 2016 NOTE: Politics, Politician, Police, Polite are Greek words that come from the word Polis=City, State. Polis meant the coming together of people that lived In harmony and were protected by laws that safeguarded the harmonious collaboration and coexistence of the citizens (Polites) who inhabited the Polis and were working for the common good of their city and that of its citizens. Politics is the science of governing the city and the Politicians supposed to be those citizens( Polites) who excelled in: virtue, justice, honesty and knowledge and were ready to serve the state and its people so as the common interests to be safeguarded. * Aristotle 380-323 BC ** Aristotle *** Plato 427-347 BC , says that virtue worth more than all the gold in the world ****Virtue (Arete): The inclination of the soul to do what is morally just and right so as our action to be liked by God!