Vote Baiting

They already know the problems.
The reports are written.

The complaints are filed.
The communities have spoken.
The suffering is visible.

Yet instead of fixing what is broken, governments choose to store the problems. They gather them, stack them, label them, and then wait for election season to use them as currency.

This is vote-baiting.

A calculated strategy where crises become leverage, and human struggle becomes campaign material.

How can a government sit in office for four, eight years or more, and do nothing meaningful for the people, nation, etc., yet suddenly discover urgency when elections approach?

The broken promises they made to get into power are still laid at the doors of the most vulnerable. Still unpaid. Still unresolved. Still ignored.

Ministers disappear before elections.
Issues are pushed to the back burner.
Files gather dust.
Communities wait.

But the moment campaigning begins, they emerge like bugs to light.

Now they care.
Now they promise.
Now they advertise.

Roads will be fixed.
Hospitals upgraded.
Jobs created.
Crime reduced.
Housing built.

All the things that were supposed to be done from the first day in office.

So, here is the real question.

Why does a government have to wait until elections to start doing the job it was already elected to do?

Why does leadership only awaken when votes are needed?

Why must suffering become a tool?

If a government had four to eight full years to serve, and chose not to, what exactly are they asking for now?

Another chance to fail?
Another term to delay?
Another season of broken promises?

Vote-baiting is not leadership.
It is manipulation dressed in campaign colors.

It is using poverty as a prop.
Using crime as a slogan.
Using broken systems as bargaining chips.

And the people are expected to forget.

Forget the hospitals that never came.
Forget the schools left to rot.
Forget the youth abandoned.
Forget the elderly ignored.
Forget the communities neglected.

And believe, once again, in sweet words with no movement behind them.

Truth is simple.

If a government did not honor its promises the day it got into office, it should never be trusted with another term.

Power is not given for speeches.
It is given for service.

Leadership is not seasonal.
Responsibility does not begin at election time.

And a people who continue to reward broken promises will continue to inherit broken nations.

Awaken.

Stop being vulnerable to slogans.
Stop being swayed by advertising.
Stop mistaking noise for action.

Look at the records.
Look at the results.
Look at reality.

Because a government that waits for elections to work was never working for you in the first place.