Let me ask, if a person comes from one extreme end of populism in one one field, can he be at same footing in another field? In many cases, people think like that and you can't blame them because they are in the same societies where they are appearing in both fields.
Have political roles turned into roles to gain or maintain populism? It used to be that when a person is elected in any political position, s/he was to work hard to fulfill the needs of the people. This was the main purpose ideally. But nowadays many people elected in such positions have a different idea in their minds from that that they display. They make their local supporters to think that they will work and die for their benefits and interests but in other words, they wont.
Take a close look at celebrities who turn into politics, what is their main idea to come to politics? Do they come to help locals, maintain the gained fame or just to make records? The people may be from famous fields like sports, athletics, music or media personalities. They use their fame gained in their fields to sweep favors from locals or even from the same fields they mobilize the masses or their friends in those fields can do the job. From their popularity, locals tend to like them basing on different reasons and grounds and in many cases, this is turned into votes on casting dates. These people use local people to their advantage since locals can't analyze their abilities but rather how famous they are. Those contest for similar posts who're not famous originally tend to lose on that ground of being unpopular, killing helpful ideas that they had.
How many politicians has this world ever seen who gained popularity in fields like sports or music and they are now successful in their political careers? But who would tell that they wont be basing on their first attempt to politics from their fame fields!! .Those who've ever been am sorry but to those who haven't, what happened? Why did you fool people. Am sorry but politics looked profitable so you decided to express your greed by capitalizing on your fame. If its to help people, everyone can do from your own field, given your popularity. Many famous athletes have done this to help their people either by funding different campaigns aiming at helpless people or even using some of high wages to put up badly needed infrastructures. Being famous, it is easy for you to make authorities than many others, so why don't you be their voice?
Am an advocate for change but change basing on populism may sound relevant yet a hoax. Leaders whose self interests appear anywhere in their minds during their political careers are like terrorists in this world's development so we should by all means avoid them.
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