Post by UCHE (@ORIUWA)

No One Was Born a Politician

No one arrived in this world as:

* a president
* a senator
* a minister
* a party spokesperson

These are constructed roles, not biological identities.

Yet over time, societies begin treating political classes as if they are a different species — people uniquely qualified to think, decide, and interpret reality on behalf of everyone else.

Interesting thing about career politics:

The longer someone remains inside a system,
the more fluent they become in:

* managing perception
* defending institutional language
* surviving incentives
* speaking without saying much

Eventually, many citizens stop evaluating outcomes
and start reacting to performance instead.

But politics was originally meant to be representation, not priesthood.

No one is born understanding governance naturally.

People learn systems.
Adapt to incentives.
Acquire language.
Build networks.

Which means political authority should never become intellectually mystical.

A healthy society should respect experience
without surrendering independent thought.

Because once citizens begin assuming:

“They must know better because they are politicians,”

critical thinking quietly leaves the room.

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