In life, not everything is always as it seems. When you are young you are fairly gullible. As you get older, your hearing becomes more refined, and you are less likely to be taken in by heavenly-sounding, but nonetheless empty rhetoric.
Now, whenever I hear a politician claim that is has got his country's interest at heart, I earnestly believe he is in an adulterous relationship with his bank manager. Either that or he is trying very hard to emulate some dictator he worshipped as an adolescent. Or both, which is not at all that unusual.
Whatever the circumstance, should you start hearing the sweet sound of violins in the distance, don't you believe that you are being invited to dance the waltz. It may be that, without you being aware, you are simply being rocked to sleep, ever so gently.
Why is it that now, whenever I hear a politician, the image that comes to my mind is that of a second-hand car salesman?
