39  Are the people themselves responsible for this sad situation?

Certainly, at least in part, because people have become fatalistic and cynical regarding politics and have often consented to its evil features.  They say that is the nature of politics and cannot be changed. People have become so accustomed to seeing the above evils in the world of politics that many seem to have surrendered to this reality. In fact many become participants by asking donations from candidates, by willingly selling their votes, by expecting to be entertained during the campaign period, by being agents in buying votes and tampering with election results, etc. This is why by participating in or tolerating the evils of the electoral process, we reap the corresponding evil of having bad people to govern us.

 

FAQs taken from CBCP Catechism on Politics


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