Is the time for politics over? – A national murmur – ✍️ Dr Tariq Ashiri
In the political world, lies have become a familiar tool used to embellish reality and mislead people. The politician is no longer ashamed of falsifying the facts or tipping the scales. On the contrary, he became an artist capable of creating illusions and selling false hopes to tired people.
Political lying is not only a moral error, but rather a crime against the collective conscience of nations. When a leader lies, the bridge of trust between him and his people is destroyed and the institutions of the state are paralyzed, because truth is the pure spirit of politics. In its absence, national consciousness dies and governance turns into a theater of deception and interests.
Today we are witnessing political lying in its most refined form: slogans without substance, promises without implementation and justifications for every failure. Until people start believing nothing and trusting no one. This situation is more dangerous than the lie itself, because it produces generations who do not believe in honesty at all.
If the political lie continues to spread, not only will governments fall, but the entire value system will collapse. Homelands are not built with false words, but with honesty and courage in the face of reality. An honest politician, even if he is wrong, is always nobler than a liar skilled in deception.
On the Sudanese and international political scene, political lies have become a dangerous weapon used to embellish ugliness and justify failure. Lying has become a policy in itself, through which crises are managed, speeches are delivered and the pain of peoples exhausted by wars and false promises is soothed.
In Sudan, the population has suffered from this phenomenon for a long time. Each political step began with promises and ended with disappointments. Slogans are raised in the name of the nation, but the truth is that many politicians only see the nation as a ladder for their interests. They talk to people about development and justice, while citizens live in poverty, deprivation and a constant loss of hope.
Political lying in Sudan was not simply a falsification of facts, but rather became an inherited culture, practiced artfully by certain elites and masked by patriotic speeches. Until the ordinary citizen began to recognize a lie from the first speech, but he was forced to listen because he had no alternative.
Political lying has become a disease that afflicts the body of the State, weakens its institutions and kills the spirit of trust. When the people lose trust in politicians, the relationship between the leaders and the base collapses and the psychological separation between the citizen and the state begins. So speeches, slogans and even sincere promises will be of no use when it is too late.
Political lying is not a passing symptom, but rather the reflection of a moral and intellectual crisis. When the political system is built on interests and not principles, lying becomes a means of survival. A politician who starts lying to gain power will have to work harder to keep it. And so the episodes of deception continue until everything collapses from within.
Political lying is a short path to the abyss. It can deceive people for a while, but it cannot create a permanent reality. Only honesty restores the prestige of the State, the confidence of the people and politics to its honorable meaning.
Let the policy in the next Sudan be a policy of frankness, not deception, and a policy of action, not promises.
Only then can we ask ourselves: is the time for politics over? Post-war Sudan is stronger and more beautiful
