After spending over twenty five years in public service I don’t believe
that a person’s morality diminishes with tenure. It has also been my experience
that during this term of career growth someone’s confidence increases exponentially
that allows you to make better decisions along the way. It is this confidence
that impacts so heavily and so dramatically on your moral compass and your
basic instinct to tell right from wrong.
Therefore a person that follows their own conscience is the type of
politician that will maintain self control to preserve his or her own
reputation for being honest and above reproach. Their knowledge lies on the fact
that once there is any doubt in their reputation, integrity or credibility, the
public will not take it lightly and focus on everything you do as they
illuminate any improprieties causing you the potential embarrassment,
humiliation and darkness to find a place to hide to avoid prosecution or
persecution by others. The fact is you will stand alone as not one wants to
defend someone or be associated with someone that is of ill repute and
condemned as a corrupt politician.
Of course there are those that step over this line without hesitation and
scurry into the darkness fulltime to avoid any undue attention and interests
into their transactions, decision making and executive orders. Although there
focus is to stay out of the negative public eye they are in fact hiding the
negativity in their character and morality that eventually it will be disclosed
and subjected to harshness that begins with rumors and innuendos that are hard
to control and elevate into cries of being a dishonest public servant and demands
of resignation or removal from office if elected.
Under today’s standards and morality, it has gotten so hard to be a
positive leader in such a negative society. Today elected officials, as well as
many non-elected bureaucrats come into office with a public presumption they
will quickly become just another rotten apple in an already decaying orchard
which will happen if the public becomes complacent and allows you to conduct
clandestine operations without drawing attention to yourself or your office.
In any situation where there is power and temptation it comes down to
fundamental reasoning that if you expect less from others you get less and if
you perpetuate the qualities of apathy and greed, you will fall to the same
qualities as those around you neglect to take care of business in an efficient
and lawful manner and take you down with them.
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