I really must stop reading my local online forum. It is dominated by a handful of reactionaries, now over the moon at the election of a UKIP councillor. It rattles me no end to see them complaining that the other candidates did not bother dropping leaflets through their doors.
Hold on a minute. Is that what democracy is all about? You vote for the person on the leaflet? What about looking outside your tiny domain and trying to understand why poverty and immigration exist in the first place? Try finding out what your candidate has been up to politically in the past.
No wonder we get the politicians we get. Are people really so lazy and shallow they can't be bothered to read a bit more than a two sized A5 glossy leaflet with bullet pointed, meaningless promises?
Democracy, shamocracy.
Alas, most people - when it comes to politics at least - are completely superficial. They'll delve as deep into the facts as your average paddling pool.
ReplyDeleteThose of use old enough to remember know that the Tories have built use of that fact into an art form. The Grantham Assassin promised cuts to taxation, which she followed through on ... only to raise indirect taxation which generally costs us plebs more as a percentage of our income than it does a rich person.
This was summed up heading toward a later election with the iron clad granny when a friend said to me: -
"I don't know anything about politics but someone who will put a few more pence in my pocket is fine by me"
I wept and came to the realisation that whilst they may have given us plebs a vote they are more than happy to let the majority stay in ignorance.
That's the mentality here too. People pleased their council tax has dropped by a few pounds a month but not giving a hoot if the beautiful country park now falls into private hands. I dread to think what it will look like if business interests get involved. At the moment it is a tranquil forest with minimal human interference and I hope it doesn't become another activity centre.
ReplyDeleteSigning off, The Grouch!
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