Crossing The Floor
How is it possible
to leave because of a fight between you and someone in the party or
organization, when your goals are truly entrenched in its policies? And even
more questionable, how do you leave the very intrinsic policies that made you
different from the competition and crossover, only to adopt theirs? How is it
possible to represent people using your competitor’s culture, the ones you so
vehemently criticized?
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Crossing The Floor The struggle for power causes disloyalty Honor swashed by obsessions and treachery Evil overcomes otherwise good men Struggling to become the top kingpin Eager for power men commit inconsistencies Grown men may switch their political parties Renounce all of their distinct manifesto Adopting a conflicting way to go People misrepresent the reasons why Even venture to deceive with a blatant lie Someone in the hierarchy forced their hand They made it impossible for them to stand And we misguided want so hard to believe Such actions were not meant to deceive The unsuspecting constituents who gave their vote Electorate who worked hard to promote Shrouded in the deception of being deserted Only because the quest for power corrupted Unfaithful men with selfish desire React this way but soon they expire |
Khaidji
I never met you, and don't know of you, but i suppose you already know, and hear it a lot - you have a lot of talent, in fact a gift. I wish you all the best with your poetic and writing endeavours, but wish to say this, crossing political parties should be encouraged, and the more people who do it the better. People should not slavishly worship the power of the party because when the party takes power, especially in an emphatic victory, the party becomes the Nation, and politicians need to remember they serve the people not the party. So we need to get away from this party politics - its too destructive. The parties are just mechanisms to get into the House, what a Parliamentarian then does is a matter of his own conscience, and if the parliamantarians had more conscience, more of them would stand up on principle, and go against the party whip.
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Gary
Thanks for your compliments
Although I understand your view and may accept that some circumstance would welcome this, I still wonder, What happens to core values if two parties seemingly conflict?
See Other Poem on Crossing The Floor inspired by a caller to Brass Tacks in May 2007
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Point taken, and every case should be taken on its merit, and nearly 100% of the times in Barbados, they cross for opportunistic motives...so the weight of evidence is with you...and what you say is true. But in Antigua where VC Bird ruled for nearly 40 years, this is amply illustrated, in the type of politics. Members broke with VC Bird, formed a rival political party, took power, lost power, and then returned to VC Birds Labour party, with open arms, like prodogal sons, and life is a lot better in Antigua for it.
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