When we look around today, politics appears not as the noble art Platon once described,
but as a cheap game of self interest.
Politicians who live for their seats, who see the people as nothing more than a voting depot,
who tie the nation’s future to their own wallets…
But they forget one thing: Plato defined politics as the “art of elevating the people.”
For him, the true statesman was not the one who served himself, but the one who preserved justice for society.
Today, it’s the opposite: those who enlarge their own interest, diminish their people.
Plato’s Republic vs. Today’s Politicians
In The Republic, Plato made it clear: the ruler must be a philosopher.
One who knows truth, who possesses wisdom, and who wields power through knowledge.
But what do we see today?
Those who hide the truth, selling their lies to the people.
Those who despise knowledge, turning populism into applause.
Those who rewrite the rules, not for justice, but for profit.
Politics today has become, in Plato’s eyes, the institutionalization of injustice.
What Is True Politics?
According to Plato, politics means:
Seeing society as a body.
Guarding the health of every part of that body.
Delivering justice not only to the strong, but also to the weak and voiceless.
And what do today’s politicians do?
They see society not as a body, but as a marketplace.
They guard not health, but profit.
They serve not the powerless, but their lobbies.
The Shocking Truth
In Plato’s eyes, today’s politicians are not statesmen but merchants.
They trade people’s hopes to secure their own interests.
Every politician who writes his own agenda instead of the book of justice is not a builder of a Republic, but the herald of a collapsing empire.
Final Word
As Plato said: “Politics is not done for self interest; self-interest is the poison of politics.”
What we see today is not politics it is nothing but the organized theater of greed.
And if the people fail to recognize this, it is not the rulers who will lose, but the ruled.