POLITICS — The Game That’s No Longer Funny ~ Enoch Addae

In many places, politics is meant to serve the people. It’s supposed to be a tool for development, justice, and unity. But in some corners of the world, politics has become a performance — entertaining on the surface, destructive beneath.

We cheer during rallies.  

We wear party colors like jerseys in a football match.  

We argue, insult, and even fight — not for truth, but for loyalty.  

And when the dust settles, only the powerful win.

It’s no longer about ideas. It’s about survival.

Politics has become a game of two sides, where everyone else must either join or be silenced. The system punishes neutrality, mocks honesty, and rewards the loudest, not the wisest.

In this game:

- Peace is fragile 

- Institutions are politicized  

- Development is conditional — you must belong to benefit  

- Truth is bent to fit agendas  

- And the people suffer in silence, hoping their turn will come — but it rarely does.

The roads don’t get fixed.  

The hospitals stay understaffed.  

The schools remain under-resourced.  

And the blame game continues 

Because politics is now power, not purpose.

But maybe, just maybe — we need to rethink this.

Maybe it’s time we stopped treating politics like war or theater.  

Maybe it’s time we demanded accountability over applause, service over slogans.  

Maybe it's time we stopped choosing sides… and started choosing sense.

Because politics shouldn’t be a deadly game.  

It should be the reason children learn, communities grow, and nations rise.

The change doesn’t begin with the politicians.  

It begins with us.

Comrade Enoch Addae, Pastor, Journalist.