Some time back there was an election.
One of the candidates wanted the post because he saw how to make money from it.
The other had worked for a long time in the organisation and there was nothing wrong with her.
A whispering campaign started, making inferences about her. Someone said she was ‘bi-polar’, someone else said that she had been fired from a job for incompetence, all sorts of things like that.
The way the whispers went, you could see the stupidest people in the group believing them.
Every group of people will have its share of stupid people. I mean really stupid people. People who believe just about anything if it is served to them in a certain way.
Meanwhile the guy who was running against her didn’t say anything. He gave these nebulous remarks about getting recognition for the group beyond what it owned, but never said how he’d do it.
Towards election day, he started to give out these ‘gifts’ to people who virtually sold him their vote.
He was elected, and started filling his pockets, and after the fourth meeting he couldn’t be found, nor could the money in the treasury.
The Assistant Chair took over and did the best he could, but the group was so demoralized, so damaged, so many accusations, that it died.
I had been a fringe member of the group. I sat back and watched them make idiots of themselves, and had told someone exactly what was going to happen.
I stopped attending meetings the day he was elected, so wasn’t there, nor were my dues, when he took the money and ran.
I laughed my head off when it happened, because it was so obvious.
The guy’s friends had created this ‘spin’ so that everything the defeated candidate had said or done was twisted in such a way that linked with the lies, made their version seem ‘true’.
Years later, at a luncheon, doing a post mortem on the group, everyone was spell bound hearing me list one item after another.
“Why didn’t you say anything?” they asked.
“I did, but no one listened to me.”
No one could disagree, because no one listens to me. Especially when I’m right.
It’s the curse of Cassandra.
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A well knitted article. I am really impressed with the style. Thanks a lot.
How can I write good English. Just I am thinking about it.
After learning Spanish I forgot some of the words in English. It is here I am recollecting all my vocabulary back after reading the blogs one by one.
Still I ought to learn many things. Yes many things. I want to speak more louder and louder...
Thank you. The more you write, the more fluent you become