We need passionate politicians not rational ones
A.S. Amarasinghe Vidanage MA in International Security and Law in Denmark. BA Horn in International Politics in London. https://lk.linkedin.com/in/amarasinghevidanage 10 April 2016 I t is is vague where reason ends and passion begins. But it becomes somewhat explicit if one places Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapakshas to the passionate side and Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickramasinghe’s government to the reasonable side. While MR and GR were passionate about defeating terrorism and its aftermath MS and RW are rational about everything from electricity shortage in our country to regarding our position as a nation-state among international community. Destiny of a nation, for its good, is not determined by the reasonable leaders but by the passionate ones. I explain why I prefer the side of passionate. The passion is what moves and changes things rapidly. It moves things to the next level. Rational minds are always in doubt and less progressive. The greate