culled- Merriam Webbster

This Election Day we cast our investigatory eye on two political practices 
now familiar chiefly to psephologists: petalism and ostracism. First, let's 
look at the term psephologist. That name for someone interested in the 
scientific study of elections has its origin in the Greek psephos, meaning 
"pebble." What's the connection between pebbles and elections? 
Paleo-psephologists know the ancient Greeks used pebbles to cast their votes. 
The ancients didn't only cast votes with pebbles, and they didn't only vote 
to put people into office, either. Occasionally, long-ago Athenians would 
vote to banish someone considered a threat to the stability of their city; 
when they performed this civic duty, they did so by writing the name of their 
candidate on broken pieces of pottery. The victim voted into this 
ten-year-exile was said to be ostracized after ostraca, the Greek word for 
"potsherd." Now that you know the story behind ostracism, you may be able to 
figure out how petalism got its name. Eligible voters in Syracuse, that 
ancient city in southeast Sicily, used olive leaves—petalon—to vote on the 
fate of their citizens suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. 
Such exiles were sent away for five years, not ten.
    
WORD FOR THE WISE

    
    



My general veiws: ---

1- To elevate the people politically you must educate them firstly
2- hold them accountable and discipline them
3- motivate them and trust them   
4- allow them to train and let in their feasible initiatives  
5- allow 100% opinion without prosecuting them for differences held
6- exchange ideas and let free debates
7- let them believe and feel secured and loved ex. the Clintonian presidency
8- elect not only educated people but those who are certain to deliver
9- honest officials and determined minds are usually successful
10- team work in all areas of gov't or areas
11- international political survey
12- fully elected democratic gov's with demand and supply
13- the people should control the leaders and not vice versa
14- the leaders should understand that it's a job and they could be fired
     and not the other way, firing 
15- elections are games and not wars
16- cheating or dictatorship or power clinching are all undemocratic
17- no leader is indispensable - others show up if others leave
18- all the people should be respected and represented
19- the leaders should not be arrogant or pompous but act as servants
20- always ready for a better change and to correct the mistakes
21- behave like a scholar and not Mr. Knowall or Mr. Alwaysright
22-never to be possessive to the people's wealth
23- say people's gov't to void the feeling that is yours
24- never do things without mutual consultation or act angrily
     rather sensibly in all people's affairs
25- ask for ideas or help even from your citizens abroad.
26- the gov't must invest domestically and internationally
27- must recruit the youth's intelligence and provide world 
     class education 
28- make education cheap and healthcare affordable.
29- the people must have food to understand other things
30- never lavish or steal the nation's wealth or trust
31- never harass the weak or opposition
32- people should help in the nation's unity and development
      as well as gov't----create good jobs
33- no one should be angry to destroy the nation's peoples
     or structures or whatsoever
34- no coup should be democratized
35- all military regimes should remain unconstitutional internationally
36- there should always be a multiparty system of gov't
37- avoid any form of tribal inflammatory
38- have a free and fair elections
39- have an alternative if you lost the game and not cause war
40- evaluate yourself realistically, whether you are first or the country
41- evaluate whether you or the nation is benefiting from you most
42- be determined to leave the people better than you found them
43- make even the opposition see that you are not a destroyer
     by working hard
44- have a real insight and vision that is futuristic- must be educated
     for a proper leadership to compete globally-----technologized 
45- make promises that you will deliver
46- remember that the voters expect that you will improve the country
      superbly--- a big task
47- never go to bed if the people do not feel satisfy- leadership
     is sleeplessness not a pleasure seeking.
48- it takes responsibilty, trust, honesty and dedication to barely survive 
it 
49- it should be by the people, for the people and of the people
50- last but not the least have faith in God, practice it and ask for His 
help.

"Until Africa changes her psychic setup of war, stealing, faithlessness, 
self-doubts,
and authoritarianism our political structure shall remained a theory or ice 
for African."

Dawda Jallow2002

THIS MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU WANT EXACTLY, BUT IT MAY BEAR
POINTS TO ELABORATE ON OR FOR OTHERS TO READ. Good Luck!

 

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