It is about time that we have a retirement age for politicians so that geriatric senile faces are rested to enable them to spend their retirement babysitting their grandchildren. This will make the much needed room to infuse young experienced and talented blood into the political mainstream which currently is in dire straits.
Politics has to be a call for service to what was once a noble mission. Sadly today it is a self seeking investment and no longer a vocation. It is now and often compared to the world’s oldest profession for obvious reasons.
Politicians should gracefully hang their boots instead of clinging on until they are reduced to piles of political thrash. With all their experience and good fortune, they should live up to the famous saying ‘Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I am doing for the next generation’.
Politicians should heed the advice of Thomas Monson, an American religious leader who said ‘Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us’. Sadly, politicians today don’t leave a legacy that is worth following! Very Silly Souls aren’t they?
