Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:28:09 +0000 Expulsions, suspensions and dogmatic approaches in politics are a sign of intellectual shallowness and failure to appreciate that divergence and political dialectic constitute the basis of progress and development. There is a very strong temptation for politicians to assume very extreme and absolute positions as if they held the absolute truth. Unlike religion there is no absolute truth in politics. If anything, successful politics is the result of dialectic, a careful and informed management of divergent thought and argumentation which ultimately relies on synthesizing contradictory positions to arrive at an acceptable formulation of what should pass and constitute truth and reality. It is only in religion where faith and absolute dogma exist. Religion does not entertain argumentation, thought and compromise. It presents absolutes. No politician is omniscient and omnipotent although some want to carry themselves as such, vested by the ever ephemeral powers of state. Infact politicians it has […]
