Manipulation Created by Lust for Power: Machiavellianism

people in general “unreliable” This trend, which he claims to be the first, says that especially in politics, political people deceive the people by not keeping their promises, and that they came to power with a political manipulation at the same time.

we are all very familiar with machiavellian peopleseparates politics and morality. Machiavellianism, which says that every way is permissible as long as it benefits more people, is a method used by all politicians today; whether we know it or not.

Machiavelli advises that a monarch should not be tolerant of the masses if he wants to stay in power.

Yes, you heard right. In this method, which is frequently used today, the ruler also using brute force against the people He advises him not to shy away and not to refrain from resorting to political manipulations when the time comes.

Any means used by the ruler to ensure the continuity of his power seems permissible.

In fact, it seems legitimate to use all kinds of means for this purpose. At this point, Machiavelli’s politics “the art of corrupting the stateWe can explain the magic behind seeing it as a ”: he treats politics with “realism” and brings appropriate explanations.

According to him, all political actors pursue their own interests in terms of political demand and supply. The main purpose for the voters “benefit maximization”, while for political parties, the main goal is “vote maximization“Stop.

The unions formed by the voters to make their voices heard morerent maximization‘ he’s after. Bureaucrats appointed by politiciansbudget maximizationThey maintain their positions in their offices when they strive for ”.

The main goal for Machiavellianism is always to seize power and to keep it.

According to this philosophy, the public is told that the state must be strong for its survival and that all kinds of ways and methods can be used for this. It’s not in the monarch’s interest to stay in power the survival of the state If it is told to the public that it is necessary for this, the people will believe it anyway (!).

In Machiavelli’s words, a ruler should only think of protecting his life and state: until he achieves this, all the means he resorts to are acceptable to the people. Because the world is made up of ordinary people The word of the small minority is heard only when the great majority does not know what to do.

Gaining power also means using the art of “heresthetic”.

If we need to define the concept of hereesthetic simply, it is a political leader or party’s putting into effect strategies to gain power by making use of all kinds of political manipulations. Actually every politician makes these strategies, we just don’t notice it.

Therefore, this concept “art of war” It wouldn’t be wrong to call it as well. So, it’s kind of a war of political interest.

Anyone who brings Machiavellianism and herestetics together is now a master politician.

Let’s imagine a despot with a thirst for power. This ambition drives him to apply all kinds of political manipulations. Among them, we all know lie, deception, praise to the nation, vote trading, vote buying, nepotism, gerrymandering There are methods such as electoral district division, which we know as

In heresthetics, in order to gain power, the despotic person integrates with the nation and destroys them. It has a salutation with praise such as “the dear nation”. Literary arts are very important in addressing the public, especially in speeches made during election periods. For example, using concise words in their speeches, reading poetry, speaking impromptu is a very effective tactic on the nation.

Negative log-rolling, which has not fallen off our agenda especially recently, is another manipulation tool.

between parties “vote trade” Log-rolling, which is defined as a term, refers to an alliance based on mutual benefit between political actors. Various parties, which have quite different ideas and ideologies from each other, prefer to unite when it comes to “interest”, which is not something that human beings will do.

Those chasing power ambitions, with various parties can trade negative votes; they may engage in some dirty “alliances” and even try to buy votes. None of this should surprise you as you read!

Gerrymandering is a manipulation technique that many of us are familiar with.

In fact, this strategy is to ensure that the boundaries of the constituencies are drawn to the benefit of a particular party. At this point, the ruling party had to enter the regions in question before the elections. spending and promises It tries to maximize the vote of the voter by increasing it.

“Strategic voting” Another method, called the so-called ruling party, encourages votes to be cast in favor of the party. This voting is a manipulation that can be extremely effective in directing the will of especially undecided voters. Maybe in the May 14 elections, millions of undecided voters of Turkey made a choice that would affect the percentage figures. At this point, to all voters, especially undecided voters,don’t let your votes go to waste, That party has no chance of being elected.”, “our votes are not divided”, “let’s not go back on our decision” messages are intensely presented to the voters to ensure that they vote for the ruling party.

The “agenda control” technique can also be used for such manipulation.

What we are trying to deal with as a country inflation, economy, earthquake, poverty In fact, this is the fact that the parties try to direct the voters by creating artificial agendas in order to make people forget the agenda for a while.

Machiavellian leader, Apart from these, it does not prevent itself from carrying out unlawful practices such as the police and military under its command abusing its power to use force, cooperating with illegal criminal organizations, creating a planned chaos in the country, resorting to political assassinations, making arbitrary arrests, silencing the voices of opposition.

As Machiavelli said, people are so naive and They give in so quickly to immediate needs that Someone who has a habit of cheating always finds someone to cheat on. I think it’s time for all of us to learn a lesson after all this. Politicians practice “If you want to be an example of a good person always and in everything, you will be lost.” logic actually causes the disappearance of a nation today.