Saturday, July 14, 2007

Political Prostitution

Thu, 12 Jul 2007
By Jayakhmer
Op-Ed Posted Online


If you betray the people whose supports make you what you are today, if you betray your principle and your conscience just to hold on to power and position in order to maintain your corrupt lifestyle, you are a politician who is practicing political prostitution.

In a free world one is free to affiliate oneself with a group, association, or organization of one's choice. In an ideal situation, political ideology and principle usually are the catalysts that force one to affiliate oneself with a political party. Once one is comfortable with a party's political platform, one remains a faithful member of that party forever through defeats and victories.

So do we call those who switch political party political prostitutes? No, not at all, there are those who switch political party with legitimate reasons.

In reality, if one joined a party because that party advocated for a certain issues that was very dear to one's heart, and now that party is no longer working or fighting for those issues any more. By all mean switch the party. In short, if one switches a political party because ideology and principle reasons, one should not be called a political prostitute.

Political prostitutes are those who have all the qualities: education, name recognition, and even very capable. He/she perpetually parades him or herself in front of the highest bitters. As soon as he or she is offered a position that provides a mean to continue that corrupt lifestyle, he/she will go for that.

Political parties should reject political prostitutes for they cannot be trusted. If they cheated others once or twice, they will cheat you again and again.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I see alot of Politician Gigolo in Cambodia? Jet set gigolo also!

Anonymous said...

do princes or pricesses do gigolo or protitude too?

when they are poor like us?

Karaok prostitude.