The trick
politicians have for finding and expanding a weaknesses in Opposition
Policy whilst ignoring the damage which a refusal to act on an issue
brings, makes the man and woman in the street question their motives.
They
rely on 'facts', but the source of these 'facts', even the substance of
any 'facts' which the politician uses to substantiate a course of
action or alternatively demolishing a course of action and maintaining
the status quo is so buried in contention and contradiction that we
wonder, like Alice at the Mad Hatters Tea Party as to our sanity.
Smoke and mirrors is a phrase used to describe the obfuscation practised by our political class as they pursue the policy diktat. Nothing is off the scale when the need is politically designated.
Reasonable objectives which would benefit the population in general, such as an affordable 'house building' program are lost in hyperbole, exaggerate claims which are known to be dishonest.
Honesty itself seems to be regarded as an old fashioned trait which has lost its appeal in the hurly burley of modern life. The end is worth any means even if the end is to disenfranchise the voter, the taxpayer, the citizen the very people the politicians was elected to serve.
Is it any wonder that the glib well worn phrases used in nearly every interview make one want to vomit.
Smoke and mirrors is a phrase used to describe the obfuscation practised by our political class as they pursue the policy diktat. Nothing is off the scale when the need is politically designated.
Reasonable objectives which would benefit the population in general, such as an affordable 'house building' program are lost in hyperbole, exaggerate claims which are known to be dishonest.
Honesty itself seems to be regarded as an old fashioned trait which has lost its appeal in the hurly burley of modern life. The end is worth any means even if the end is to disenfranchise the voter, the taxpayer, the citizen the very people the politicians was elected to serve.
Is it any wonder that the glib well worn phrases used in nearly every interview make one want to vomit.
Just
as the 'adverts' in a media campaign are a "construct" to encourage a
belief that what the salesmen is saying is true, a construct which in
our hearts we know is a con, then the same disbelief is rampant when we
hear the politician speak.
But we seem to be in a blind. Unable to avoid having to rely on these clearly fallible human beings to help us negotiate our lives we have nowhere else to turn given the system of Parliamentary democracy under which we are governed. The type of person who wishes to become a Politician, who rise to offer their services to society, are equally prone to take advantage of our situation.
This is made far worse when society elevates these people by awarding them status, immunity and a fat pension for life.
But we seem to be in a blind. Unable to avoid having to rely on these clearly fallible human beings to help us negotiate our lives we have nowhere else to turn given the system of Parliamentary democracy under which we are governed. The type of person who wishes to become a Politician, who rise to offer their services to society, are equally prone to take advantage of our situation.
This is made far worse when society elevates these people by awarding them status, immunity and a fat pension for life.
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