Someone once said that most elected officials are impostors. I believe it’s not most. It’s all of them.
Anyone who wants to make decisions for others — and, to that end, manipulates voters by promising things they know they won’t deliver just to gain power — is an impostor.
Election campaigns are a spectacle. 🎭 A theatrical performance. Beautiful words are spoken about justice, solidarity, and the future. But the truth is that no one can truly be held accountable after being elected. The contract between voter and elected official is, in practice, void.
If they were honest, they would say something like:
“I’m just a regular person. I believe I have some empathy and common sense. If I reach a position of power, I’ll try — within my limits and the given context — to do good for the people around me and for my community. But only after I’ve taken care, honestly, of myself and my loved ones.”
But no one says this. Because that wouldn’t win votes. Truth doesn’t persuade the masses. Illusion does. 🪞
So what are they? Politicians? No. Professional impostors. 🕴️
🤝 Everyone Is Complicit
Some say that only the elected officials are responsible for the state of the world. I say something else: everyone who votes is equally guilty.
❓ Why?
Because no one — not even the best psychologist 🧠 — can predict what a person in power will do over four years. Not even if they were studied like a lab rat.
Human behavior isn’t fixed. People react to their environment. 🌪️ Honest today, blackmailed tomorrow. They make promises today, get bribed tomorrow. A seemingly good person can turn rotten in different circumstances.
Anyone who wants to be elected knows one simple truth: they can’t be held accountable once they’re at the top. Power comes without a contract. 📜 They only answer to those above them, not to the ones who elected them.
If there were a real mechanism of control — like a referendum at the end of each term, followed by an actual trial ⚖️, where a guilty verdict would automatically mean a ban from future elections, asset confiscation 💰, and a few years in prison — no one would run for office. Because stealing would no longer be without consequences.
And yet, people keep voting. 🗳️
🤔 Why?
Because they hope for personal gain. Either they know candidate X, or they hope to be noticed. In both cases, they know they have no real power over them once the election is over. And yet, they vote. Willingly. That’s called complicity. 🧷
Massive electoral participation dilutes the guilt. You can no longer point fingers. No one can be punished. When everyone is involved, no one is held accountable. 🫥
If only a few hundred or a few thousand people voted, it would be easy to identify and hold them morally responsible for what follows. But like this? The system has protected itself perfectly: it turned every voter into a human shield. 🛡️
