Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.
Elections have consequences.
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
Ideology has consequences.
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
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