High standard of spiritual life needed during elections

OPINION

By Kajabago-ka-Rusoke

On the part of each one who is contesting for either Parliament or Presidency there must be a spiritual intention to put in place an economic type of life for the benefit of all he or she intends to represent. For there can never be politics outside spiritual life.

This is because politics expresses concentrated economic emotions, sentiments, views and opinions between social interest groups, which are aiming at state power. Once one of the groups has captured state power, that group will use the state to (i) reflect its own economic intentions, (ii) implement those intentions and (iii) suppress the economic intentions of the defeated group. But there can never be a state without law. Law is the sum - total of obligatory and compulsory standards of behaviour and conduct passed by and acceptable to the group in power. The functions of law are identical to those of the state - To (i) reflect (ii) implement and (iii) suppress. Both state and law are tools in the hands of the group in power.

Spiritual power here plays a very big role.  For there arises a question: "Why are you in power and for whom?"  Is your intention to organise the territory for the benefit of the people as a whole or, you are hiding under the cover of personal economic aims to enrich yourself and your family? If it is for selfish reasons, spiritual life there is bad, incorrect and unfortunate. You are a wrong person for society and if you have no sense of guilt, you are spiritually lacking.

First thing is that you should appreciate people of whom you are part. Two, love them. Whatever you want to do for yourself, imagine whether those others do not also need the same or not. If so aspire that each one of them be in possession of the same that you need as long as it is for the benefit of all. It should be on the principle of all for each and each for all. Mutual appreciation is very important as it gets rid of mutual hatred, negative ambitions against each other and makes us one people. This is the life of the spirit as a component of social existence to guide economic practice in the economic base in order to link correctly with the superstructure putting in place a suitable, acceptable, socio - economic formation for all.

In this art and struggle, therefore, as to who understands and feels people's views and sentiments better than another so that the one considered better understanding is allowed to lead, an aspirant should expose what he or she actually understands as people's needs, then people will be able to assess.
   
Whether he or she really is spiritually together with them. Then let him or her illustrate how he or she can solve their problems to prove that he or she is really one of them better than any other claiming to be for them too. Each aspirant should illustrate a programme as to how he or she is going to solve problems. For no aspirant should ask for "a chair" without illustrating why he or she wants a chair. To do what with the "chair"? That one has overstayed or, too young or, too old, does not matter. What matters is what one is able to do for the whole people.
   
In cases like these, therefore, voters should be able to judge between the honest and the dishonest. Here comes the role of the people to determine their own history and destiny. If the spiritually crooked aspirant imagines that he or she can pay some people so that they vote him or her when he or she does not really belong to them spiritually and, if those being paid also accept the money for their own selfish interest, then the spiritually incorrect aspirant should be condemned less than the voters who should have assessed and confirmed the truth underlying the cunning aspirant. 

Then the aspirant and voters all qualify only as opportunists against their own area. Spiritually, therefore, both the aspirant and the voters should be serious and honest towards what a constituency as an area for economic purposes should be made to be for the benefit of all.
   
Comrades from one party are supposed to share common economic and spiritual ideals. But there is, however, competition concerning, who between the competitors, is more understanding than another in order to be appreciated above others. In this case, therefore, there should not be any tampering with ballot papers of one comrade by another with a calculated personal sabotage so as to go through against the other when both belong to one party with same and similar aims intended for people of the same area. Aspirants should only compete and let people decide through ballot boxes who appealed to them better. If aspirants interfere technically for selfish reasons, then they are spiritually wrong.
   
In another event concerning electoral processes it is spiritually very bad and incorrect for a member of an electoral commission to maneuver through electoral papers so as to favor one candidate against another.  Such a member of an electoral commission qualifies only as a crook underming the would- be correct decision by the electorate itself.

In all presentations by any type of an aspirant, people should be encouraged to discern the type of economic system the aspirant should put in place for their own welfare. That is the most important.
   
There should not be any aspirant enticing some people to vote according to a given religious denomination. That would mean using religion for selfish economic intentions by that aspirant to win a political seat not necessarily to serve even those with whom he or she shares the same religious denomination, but would be using it as a cover for personal and selfish economic aims and is, therefore, already sectarian and spiritually crooked.
   
Each aspirant representing a peasant should make sure that there should be a decent housing system for that peasant, balanced diet, dresses to match with the climate and geographical conditions under which the peasant labours to earn a living and that his or her children are entitled to education. There must be clean water, electricity or, solar systems, suitable road systems, play grounds, cinema, public radio and TV halls, dispensaries and clinics.
   
All these demand a co-operative economic arrangement in all villages throughout the country on the basis of raising cadres committed to a very high standard of spiritual life.
   
Make sure there is no peasant at all who is made to pay rent for the land he or she uses to maintain a homestead. Anybody making a peasant pay land rent is unforgivable criminal and spiritually negative to man, woman and child on a national territory.
   
It is not incorrect that land should be utilised for largescale production. This, in fact shall enlarge the economic base for the benefit of many and more on a national territory. But where a needed project should be started could be a piece of land already occupied for many years by quite a number of families constituting quite a number of homesteads. Telling such families that they should right there find where they should begin to live is horrible. Here arises a contradiction (i) That large - scale industrialisation is essential, but (ii) that families should not be smashed. The solution is

(a) That spiritual education should be conducted between family members and those intending to industrialise, educating the family members about the national need for such an enterprise.
   
(b) Making sure that they are going to be moved to an area which shall be used by themselves to continue serving the same economic interests of their families.
    
(c) That moving there shall be met with construction of fresh homesteads and hence need for raising funds to establish new homesteads in another area. This will create smooth mutual spiritual understanding between the concerned groups for a smooth future for all avoiding mutual antagonism and hatred.
    
The peasantry is a reliable backbone in the country's backyard while wage - earners are a reliable labour force in a variety of economic units on the national territory. Without these two, economic life shall come to a standstill at a national level. These are two main forces to which attention should be paid for total national welfare to sustain a healthy economic base in both town and country. That means, where an economic unit demands that workers live by its side, there should be (i) A decent housing estate for all workers, men and women together with their children. (ii) A welfare hall for entertainment (iii) Radio and TV halls for information. (iv)  Play grounds for sport. (v) Clinics and dispensaries supported by ambulances for emergency purposes where the clinic or dispensary is unable to deal with certain cases. (vi)  Annual leave with pay. (vii) Nurseries for their children at their respective economic units. (viii) Dresses that match with the type and nature of work they perform in those economic units.
   
All these should be summarised in terms of the nature of relationship between workers and employers in an economic unit. Workers in each economic unit should be having a labour union which accommodates all their views and aspirations and which labor union should use collective bargaining between themselves and employers.
   
Those representing workers in Parliament should be people who should still carry the aspirations of the workers they represent and urge Government to contribute greatly to the welfare of the working class rather than go to Parliament, begin earning allowances and forget what actually they promised to stand for concerning the welfare of the working class. If they do not do that then they are just mere vulgar opportunists and spiritually inferior beings.
   
All civil servants and all ministers should be aware they represent workers and peasants as the sustainers of our economic base. All of us regarded as servants to the people should know that we are on duty not on job. The money payments we get for what we have done is means of exchange for what we should consume for sustaining both biological and spiritual life. It enables us to fulfill duty until we are no longer physically able to continue and each one of us resorts to an area underneath the surface of the Earth, namely, grave.

Spiritually we remain although physically we decompose.