Politics and sycophancy will always sail together - be it the politics on here, your soccer team, at home, in corporate circles, but particularly within the state and its administration, and from Washington to Banjul. There'll always be those whose only way to advancing their careers or achieving their goals is by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous means.
From when you're just an eager beaver amongst frauds like that, from when you refuse to be as shallow and callow as they'd wish, you'll intimidate them. So they'll use a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres against you, frame you, advise against you, up to getting rid of you. In fact, their greatest most intelligent success is when they deceptively play the leadership into taking their two-faced and fawning attitudes for firmness in allegiance. Remember how our former president in conceding defeat lamented that some of his Greens were turning Yellow? Yeah mon, he was played same way.
Don't get me wrong. Politics is noble, but such is the reason why the Rastaman calls it "polytricks"- too many dishonest and self-serving tricks, or polyticks - poly as in many and ticks as in bloodsucking creatures. And like the AIDS virus, you can't tell who is who by looking. You gotta pay attention to the symptoms. And rather than acting rashly, check the validity of the stories and jokes they bring just to get close to you.
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