Politics are fickle. What do I mean by that? Simply that in many if not most cases, political success in a morally depraved world is based on "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY". Better yet, "REMEMBER WHAT I DID FOR YOU", meaning how much money a person gave one's campaign which helped elect them. The problem is that politics are fickle and nobody remains in power forever. Because that is the case, politicians tend to amass as much money as they can before they are deposed from office. This is were compromise and corruption infests the godless leader's sole. When a person, especially a politician fails to listen to their pastor and no longer reads their Bible-implementing it in their life, they become unteachable. When such a leader can no longer take moral advise from God's leading, they end up usurped and broke once again. Perhaps, this is why politicians and corrupt business leaders become corrupt and amass as much money as they can while they are in office.
Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 in the English Standard Version say this:
"13 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. 14 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. 15 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. 16 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."
IN other words, the poor young man who comes "from prison" and who forgets how fickle people can be may himself be reduced again back to poverty by a second usurper. Perhaps this explains why so many politicians are mediocre to poorly or skilled people. They tend to be average people (who came from nothing) because many of them cannot make it in the real world of work. It's hard to be a principle-based person (politician) so does the right thing in effort to do the best thing for God and others. Doing so takes mental acuity, discipline, moral conviction, and a great bit of wisdom which comes from the Lord . "For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding" (Proverbs 2:6).
On top of God's wisdom and all things mentioned above, it takes skill, experience and a bright mind to fix problems and create and implement solutions. To solve problems that impede people from getting everything from affordable healthcare to drivable roads, to world peace takes takes discipline, creativity, intelligence, ethic and effort. For those who lack such things, stealing from the average person is the only other option for them to become wealthy.
Perhaps, the reason we have had so many foolish, average and corrupt politicians is because we keep voting into office representatives who are just that-politician. A politician can get into office with biblical, Christ centered convictions, but it's very difficult to remain in political office. By it's very inception, the role of any political office we designed to be TEMPORARY, not PERMINENT. In order to REMAIN in office, one must compromise and divert from God's Word in an effort to make a livng doing and getting favors from others in an effort to remain in power and amass corrupt wealth. This explains the state of American and European politics.
Perhaps politicians who make a career out of politics-in most (if not all) cases are morally compromised people who have abandoned God's convictions in their life for riches and power in return. This also explains why so many politicians come to office with very little if any money and leave extremely wealthy. They don't create any wealth or earn much if any of that money out of their own hard work, but instead get political favors and dirty money favors such as homes and other material wealth given to them out of favors delievered while in office; form exorbiten speaking fees, and in the case of President Joe Biden's son Hunter Binden, $1million dollars for his paintings. The guy isn't even an artist.
So, in the end, this explainso one thing which is that POLITICS ARE FICKLE. And because polics are fickle, it makes clear as to why politicians steal and pillage as much as they can while in office. Thankfully for us, we have Ecclesiastes 4:13-16 which makes clear that it is...
"13 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice. 14 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor. 15 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king's place. 16 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."
