Account in The little Prince its author that older people were only happy if he talked to them about, among other things, politics. Because the serpent was depriving humanity of the wonderful life of its creature, it could not know if politics would serve any good, other than just a topic for grown-ups to talk about. If he had survived, he might have been able to figure out what to do if there were no more businessmen like this one in action, who had 501,622,731 stars, which he didn’t share with anyone. He could understand that, by creating the necessary conditions, there will be many people similar to the lamp he met, who are not only concerned with themselves, but with other things: when he lights a lantern, it is as if he gives birth. to the star. Perhaps he would see politics as an instrument of that fertile rain.

The great playwright Bertolt Brecht said that the worst illiterate is the politically illiterate, because he does not participate in political events; He does not know that the cost of living, the price of bread depends on political decisions; who proudly says he hates politics; that from his political ignorance is born the least abandoned and the worst of all robbers: a treacherous, corrupt and servile politician.

Some are afraid of the people. They were calm when it was necessary to know how to read and write in order to vote and thus supported the poor. Moreover, they passed laws so that only the wealthy (they) have that right. The natives, the blacks, were excluded from politics. Also women, as in ancient Greece. They don’t like to see those protesting in the streets; They would like them to stay in the rite, in the folklore postcard, in the markets to buy them groceries, to continue working for them. How much they would give to return them to yesterday’s complete slavery!

But they have control mechanisms. So that the people vote and not choose. They have a dirty campaign, fear they instill, boycott when the undesirable wins and fight for the common good more than they let on. They have the State with its security forces, judges and prisons, for the rude to take their place. They have pacts between apparent adversaries to “save the country”.

It is necessary to justify the policy that many politicians are dirtying. It is possible to build a society of tenderness…

They have laws. The constitution recognizes the citizen’s right to revoke the mandate of elected officials, but the legislator enacted regulations that illegitimately limit the exercise of that right. They manipulate the right to consultation: good when it is in the interest of the ruler and his inner circle of representatives; bad when an active society imposed it. They do not comply with or oppose prior consultation with mining or oil exploiting communities. They prefer an oligarchic form of state, where they rule directly or through leaders who rule but do not own, like the king in Exupéry’s story.

It is necessary to justify the policy that many politicians are dirtying. It is possible to build a society of tenderness, where we are like the Little Prince and the Fox, who tame each other and take responsibility for each other. (OR)