I have long thought that we all did so well in the post war world that we cared about politics less and less. It never seemed to make much difference who you voted for (especially when Tony Blair came along - absolutely no difference in the main parties) and the chances are your vote never made any difference. Consequently, the gang of charlatans with egos the size of houses were left to parade around on the world stage. It's not just the UK is it? The whole western world is run by twats and incompetents because nobody thought it mattered any more. How we get out of this mess is anybody's guess - I see no sign of any politician with morality and courage anywhere (unless maybe we get Ron de Santis to run for world president!). People definitely need a good shake to wake them up otherwise one day we will see the Chinese coming over the horizon and then it will be too late. Bad times are ahead.
Undoubtedly true. People got on with their lives but the technology and power available to politicians grew; simultaneously the types of people becoming politicians became stranger and stranger, distorting everything as it went along. What I find most depressing is that it takes a potential national disaster for anything to actually to be noticed. You might think that people would realise something is amiss before energy prices go up a trillion percent.
Our own government, and a Conservative Government at that, has achieved what Hitler didn't manage.
Excellent article!
I have long thought that we all did so well in the post war world that we cared about politics less and less. It never seemed to make much difference who you voted for (especially when Tony Blair came along - absolutely no difference in the main parties) and the chances are your vote never made any difference. Consequently, the gang of charlatans with egos the size of houses were left to parade around on the world stage. It's not just the UK is it? The whole western world is run by twats and incompetents because nobody thought it mattered any more. How we get out of this mess is anybody's guess - I see no sign of any politician with morality and courage anywhere (unless maybe we get Ron de Santis to run for world president!). People definitely need a good shake to wake them up otherwise one day we will see the Chinese coming over the horizon and then it will be too late. Bad times are ahead.
Undoubtedly true. People got on with their lives but the technology and power available to politicians grew; simultaneously the types of people becoming politicians became stranger and stranger, distorting everything as it went along. What I find most depressing is that it takes a potential national disaster for anything to actually to be noticed. You might think that people would realise something is amiss before energy prices go up a trillion percent.
Absolutely. Maybe it will take a real crisis, that cannot be avoided or managed or postponed, to bring us to our senses. I guess its coming soon.
It's a shame it's come to that.
Apologies, it was intended as a joke about our collective mindset in the self-righteous West... it seems it fell flat!
You say all that, but at least we can bathe in our self-righteousness.
Is that not enough for you?