Politics as a Religion

October 26, 2009 by Taran Rampersad

If you read, "Politics as a Religion in America" and you take the time to consider it in a context of Trinidad and Tobago, you might be surprised.

Consider this from the article:

...Perhaps the single most profound change in our political culture over the last 30 years has been the transformation of conservatism from a political movement, with all the limitations, hedges and forbearances of politics, into a kind of fundamentalist religious movement, with the absolute certainty of religious belief...

And it's that sort of blind faith when it comes to politics that could easily be seen to align or be confused with race in politics. It's a tradition. It doesn't even have to make sense, once it comes from the pulpit of the political. While it's seen most in the PNM and the various renditions of the UNC (which is shopping for a new leader in the future, perhaps), every political party has at least some of the fervor - the evangelism and mostly the 'leap of faith' in believing that the political party that they support actually does things in the interest of the nation.

It's interesting to consider.

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