Kindly, switch off the genius:

"Political parties have high commands and high commands have a genius being groomed to take charge ...".  This passage, on the state of politics in his country was annoying.  Afraid of saying even the word' fight' ChintaMany decided to do agitate against it peacefully, by pouring out his anguish in his diary.  

Whatever be the party and its ideology, migration from one party to another for accommodation and rehabilitation is common. Instead of having ears on the ground, they rely on foreign media accounts to disrupt proceedings in assemblies and parliament. Ideology be damned!  The saying, “charity begins at home” is their guiding mantra.” As pointed out by the columnist, they all have a genius to be groomed.

This genre belongs to one such party, that claims getting Independence or vigilant in safeguarding the independence or runs with a claim m to be the torch bearer for the poor or relentlessly marching with a cudgel against profiteering industrial establishments, or content with making rhetorical noises quoting out of expired pages of dogmas! 

A typical genius politician deludes himself or herself as a warrior and shows his valour by sniping at the real soldiers. Wanting to be a diplomat par excellence, does not understand silence is a powerful tool of denial than rolling up a half-sleeve. He or she is waiting to inherit gold mines, in the ballot boxes, to become a Midas. He or she has not learnt that whatever Midas touched became a misery for him. Probably, is it the desire of this modern Midas? Highly competitive, he or she practices hide and seek, shoot and scoot relentlessly for an Olympic appearance, on the half chance that these Quixotic games would be included.  

Is oratorial skill the foundation for demagogues to build political careers?  False. Endowed and genius politicians have palatial mansions from which to play their political innings. Swaying the public opinion by dispensing acerbic or acidic comments and sometimes with wrong statistics, are counted as merits. 

No country gives a driving license to a backseat driver. But where this genius has roots, that norm does not apply. Can you imagine a party without a spokesperson? Whenever, this genius opens the mouth, the official spokesperson goes in battle gear, to grab a mike and spin yarns to distance the genius and the party from the printed ‘pearls of wisdom’ as an the off-the-cuff or out of context, misquoted remark. The job of the spokesperson, is to make such delirious utterances to go away, at least from the genius and to label it as paid news with malicious intent. 

Is it not true that the mainstream politicians engage with the public, in the constituencies or within the country?

False. Not applicable to a genius. After tasting foreign food in a foreign land tries to stand tall amid ruined remnant of the party. To prop up his or her political rise, can throw mounds of sludge to insult one’s own sovereign country. Foreign soils offer the best climate. This act of taking the country to his or her fool’s paradise, unsettles even an apolitical bystander. It was getting unbearable and ChintaMany decided to spend his anger by analysing why this type of incorrigible geniuses are getting a free pass always.? 

Why the left, right and wingless political parties, carry along this genre of ‘genius’ politicians? Why the ability to generate nuisance value by stirring controversial brews to garner publicity from foreign soils is tolerated? Is imported articles (print and video) have greater appeal and get easily integrated into that particular party’s national politics.? When the reiterated claims of lineage, assumed popular mandate in the pocket, did not bring the crown to a genius, what are the options open to the party? 

ChintaMany had an answer “Strive to earn a landslide victory or order a personal crown from a famous house like Cartier! With head in the sand, this political party hopes for windfall gains, with the genius running a robust business model of exporting criticisms and importing foreign support. The coterie prefers this misguided missile attacks from foreign soil, instead of being written off as a political spent force.  Like patriarchy or matriarchy, the branding of this genius falls in the niche category - ‘hypocriarchy’. New breed of politician and so a new word to the dictionary (hypocrisy +hierarchy). 

Awake or asleep, abroad or at home, business houses are the sitting ducks in the firing range of this genius. Commerce and Economics does not bother this genius swimming in the eddy current of a mainstream or tributary politics. For building castles, the genius should try for a place in Disney Land or Alice in wonderland, leaving alone the growth engines.  The business houses fuel economic, technical and employment growth. Where the trend leads, businesses will naturally gravitate there. This simple logic never penetrates the depths of this foggy mind, located in the Marianna Trench. 

Having no clear strategy, thinks time spent with these corporates to understand the world of business could well be spent with think-tanks abroad - nativity with a foreign flair. Flies abroad in business class, only to bait them and blame the ruling party.  He has no vision or a blue print to urge academic institutions and industries to dovetail efforts for advancement.  Shunning the thinking work, our genius politician chooses the easy way-out - blame brain drain, unemployment, monopoly and greed of homegrown corporate houses. The scion of the head-in-the sand-party (ChintaMany had branded the party, with great pleasure!), follows the script and fails to notice the rampant corporate monopoly, where he frequents or his think-tanks reside. 

If at all, he would get a chance, ChintaMany had some questions: 

You fly to foreign countries, and the top-ranking minds also do the same. They migrate to prosper. You, to earn a frequent flier badge? Will this badge glory to the country? Back home, you never fail to accuse government- corporate nexus, for brain drain. Why? Whose brain are you worried about? 

Having no other constructive ideas, you the eddy current swimmer try to tighten the nuts and bolts on the corporate houses for ruing economy and facilitating the growth of other nations – assemble and deliver contracts. You pose the great question why not they manufacture here? 

Personally, sitting over a mound of money, you have never even started a cutting-edge razor blade manufacturing unit. Instead, kept growing your stock portfolios of the very same ‘profit mongering’ ‘corporate entities! Where is the logic? 

You are a genius to have many think- tanks, steeped in foreign culture and investment climate, as sparring partners for your political boxing bouts. You forget to think and act like a native, while at home and not even willing to buy locally made readymades. Economy runs on revenue and an opportunity to cash it on, cannot be missed. Yet, you oppose the assemble and deliver streams. Is this your formula for reducing unemployment? 

By sitting by a business class window seat, you gaze at the hurrying mass of clouds and take a dig at the corporates who manufacture and sell aircrafts. Are you against them for catering to the elite? Or planning to start an airline service with a few hundred aircrafts, to make it affordable to the poor?  Why berate someone doing something? Flights of imagination surely will end in a hard landing of reality. Ready to something constructive? 

Not a day passes without you stirring the airwaves with angry outbursts. Is it inability to compete in the swimming pool that is fuelling your fiery speech. You, even after spending decades by swimming in the slip stream of mainstream politics remain difficult to be seasoned. The horde of tutors, in-house or foreign, could not raise their hands, for fear of losing favours from the mainstream politics. They are afraid to quote the saying that “Age is no bar to learn” to this genius who has D N A stuffed with entitlements. 

The mainstream political party is so weak that it cannot jettison this slipstream politician. Bereft of ideas and stamina, the old guards prefer status quo ante and status quo for the party and in addition a quid pro quo for themselves as bonus for being loyal.  The much-expected coronation event slipping by decades, the hope of the genius politician, hops from one foreign country to another either searching for roots, stems, branches or leaves that might have hidden fruits for him. 

Politics is played by get set and go rule and not by get jet and go. Plans. The head of state and head of external affairs are the exception to the rule as their job description is to get the jet and go. The genius, enroute on a sponsored ticket, imagines donning the role of head of state and head of external affairs and makes political speeches to the wrong constituency.

Complimentary tickets and the purse of honorarium come from ‘stink tanks’ operating in foreign soils with the sole aim of dredging up dirt, overlooking progress, in spite of shackles. In his over enthusiasm to project a self-portrait, this genius falls head long in to the laid trap, secure in the knowledge, that his backers at home would dive headlong to spin favourable yarns, alluding to the great insight of this failed politician. In extreme cases, the hecklers may be banished and forced to have sideline meetings to compare notes. 

The disease of spawning genius politicians is endemic.  Each satrap grooms a genius politician - a spouse, son, daughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, to hold the family empire intact.  They forget this is country which had seen many empires fall to dust. Bystander understood their mind set in this way- after abolishing Princely states and introducing Privy Purse, who else could fill the vacuum? In the political storm faced by them, this fortification would come in handy, to face raids from enforcement agencies. An elected representative in the family is always a golden insurance. 

This genre of politician provides one admirable service to the elected representatives of his party - keeps them fit.  The trick is to make out of turn statements or hurl ill-intended criticisms and scoot. This forces the party men to necessarily to do hasty ‘walk outs or walk aways’ to distance themselves, from these rants. Those who mount such stout defences, might be earn a cabinet post as defense minister!

The genius politician has a tendency to go off the script, the moment he crosses the border. The undesirable effect is media and think tanks with vested interest stare at us through this tainted lense. The side effect, once again scrambles seasoned politicians of the party to distance themselves staging walkouts or sit-ins in support of the Genious. It does not bother the genius, that many who hurried to support him themselves are iin  need of assistance to move their physical self.

Instead of raising a political storm, the genius manages to float a swarm of mote. Investiture ceremony eluding the grasp, the restless genius targets the foundation of constitutionally established institutions. For the discerning, it is nothing but bravado before standing before the very institutions for relief. 

A nation conducts diplomacy, within accepted norms shaped to be practiced in international arena. Norms and practices do not prevent self-styled spokes persons and the genius, from conducting open air diplomacy, to sing a discordant tune, throwing confusion in to the mix. 

Normally not taken seriously, the country suffers the added dead weight syndrome in the eyes of the world. Placing politics above diplomacy, the considered diplomatic views are for the benefit of constituency which is worried sick about the next sunny day. Even if it is an AI generated clip, politicians will do everything to milk the cow. What else you could expect from the cadre of spokesperson, who is happy to use the " misquoted” as many times it takes to bury the truth.

The genius is confused about his and the nation's future, suffering from "edge of the nose" tunnel vision. Holding a last straw, he prattles that elections are stolen from his party's candidates. With sharpened hindsight he did a backwards time-travel by a decade and announced all those elections where his party lost was due to conspiracy. Adding a new twist, from the one expected to give a new direction to the future of the party and the nation, this wimpy kid introduces another variant to explain future electoral defeats – dumping ‘foreign meddling” in favour of local conspiracy. 

The scion has the uncanny ability not to make political mileage but to create a political mess out of whatever issue is takes up. The genius likes to be the oven without the heating elements and hungry for power, if it comes without resistance. This sums up the dreams of the genius politician!

ChintaMany, after pouring out his anguish, came to the question of how to stop this infestation?

Only the electorate are capable of voting out the party to effectively take out the high command along with the genius under grooming. Perhaps a Toolkit – switch off the genius, might be of help!