Who has the most sustainable stamina to endure the pressure in performing their task? Can it be a marathon runner, a long distance swimmer or a politician?
No prize for guessing who's the runaway winner. It's the politician of course!
If there is an open field medal for the most sustainable stamina in the Olympics, the most likely winner will be a politician!
While the marathon runner and the swimmer will be following a set of universal rules and able to gauge and expect the challenges in their struggle for success and glory, it can't be said the same about politicians.
The playing field for the game called politics can be anywhere and anytime. There is no specific time limit and rounds of play. The rule of the game changes without any consideration of the opponents objections or claims of foul play. They won't be bother about fair play since for sure there won't be a Fair Play Trophy in this game.
The rules are very pretty "simple".
To win the game, a politician need to outwit their opponents and supporter and do everything by the book and also those not in the book. Trust is an vulgar word for some of the players. Sometimes one can't even trust your own team mates. If caught off-guard, a politician can be stabbed on the back by one of their own. They must be prepared to be politically stripped naked and be publicly shamed. They will also strive they do it on others too.
A politician must be able to sustain all types of verbal and non-verbal abuse and does it against his or her opponents without any feeling of remorse or shame. They must be able to make use and be used by others. They must win at all cost. By hook or by crook. And they will keep on doing it on and on as long as there is sunrise and sunsets.
It is part of the "skills" in their game. If anyone doesn't know how and don't want to utilize these "skills", it's time for them to throw in the towel and kiss the game goodbye.
For the spectators of these games, just like any other games, once the game takes too long to decide an outright winner of the game, it will be too tired for the spectators to watch on. Or if too much tricks and cheating that broke all levels of decency has been used by the players to win the game, the spectators will just walk off and cursed the players for wasting their precious time and money watching the game.
Anyway, at the end of the day the players will still be at the arena fighting with each other because they had the most durable stamina to sustain the challenges of the game, even without any spectator bother to watch them whacking and striping each other naked.
By the way, moral shame and moral fear is not part of the ground rules. - Loka
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