The word "politics" consists of eight letters but is often referred and reacted to as if it was a proverbial four-letter word.

The above observation is no great revelation, however it does raise the interesting question as to how did a once noble endeavor become relegated with a "used-car salesman".

I would love for governmental politics and the political process to be restored to something that citizens could once again respect and hopefully aspire to.

My reasoning is simple. In order for the above to occur, many changes would need to be made, including some that would be radical in nature. Simply put, governmental politics would have to clean up its act!

I am specifically using the term "governmental politics" as the term politics can mean many things in today's society. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic and religious institutions.

In its most basic form, politics consists of "social relations involving authority or power". In practice, the term refers to the regulation and government of a nation-state.

In a broader sense, any situation involving power, or any maneuvering in order to enhance one's power or status within a group, may be described as politics as it is with office politics.

All rhetoric aside, wouldn't it be nice to once again live and thrive in a world where the political process would freely give each citizen a "voice" in the shaping or their own community, nation and personal destiny?

YES, I believe it would be very nice.......

........and then politics could return to being an "eight-letter word"