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Human Nature Doesn'T Change - Iii

III. Enrique believed in the candidate Jones, who championed causes he favored. He signed up to help the man’s campaign, for a new tomorrow he labored. It was hard work, the calls and the shouts of the other side, so coldly 'fascist.' But Enrique kept on pushing, it had to be done, they’d get no better chance than this. Against all the odds, Jones won by a hair, and the drinks were poured at his HQ. Enrique toasted to a better world, proclaiming ‘the fascists’ were through! When Senator Jones moved to Washington DC Enrique waited to see the change come. But months went by and he heard nothing, no spoils of the victory hard won. He e-mailed often to learn of progress, but form letters were all Jones returned. Then two months in Jone’s went back on a big promise, and Enrique felt burned. It only got worse as the weeks went on, Jones seemed content to walk Washington’s scene He went to the right parties, diddled the interns, and forgot all about strong words of dreams. Enrique fumed, and spoke of betrayal, but his girlfriend said,”They’re all the same. Politicians are addicts to power and illusion, Human nature, it just doesn’t change.”

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