Enemy or Friend?

Whether they were Gefrans, Federal citizens, or people from other countries—especially ordinary people from the bottom rungs of society—they had all shared at least one question: those officials could do nothing, so how had they become officials? Take the members of the Bayer Federation's Congress, for example. Many of them had never worked in a field related to law. Some had not even majored in law at university.

They only had a superficial understanding of the law, so what qualified them to decide whether a law should pass or be amended? Put simply, a group of outsiders was doing work that even insiders could not do. What gave them the right? Far too many people had wondered this. It was like Lin Qi, who had never proven himself on a rugby field, somehow becoming the chairman of a professional football club. What gave him the right? When most people thought of this question, they felt somewhat angry. They were likely suffering from such problems themselves, or watching people around them—or people in society—suffer from them.

That was why they asked themselves: Why were politicians outsiders in so many industries, yet able to perform work that only insiders should be qualified to do? In fact, everyone had been looking at the issue from the wrong angle from the very beginning. To politicians, their "profession" was politics, and politics was also their occupation. As for the power and influence extended from their occupation, those were merely bonuses.

As long as they knew how to undermine one another, understood when to compromise, were willing to cast aside a little shame, and lowered their moral standards a little, then they were professionals in the field of "politics"!

Precisely because they were professionals, they could become officials!

Gefra's Prime Minister was also a professional politician.