Politics is everything
Published 1 year, 7 months ago in My life.Religious freaks and science buffs of Nook take a breath - politics is everything. It is not noble or spiritually enlightening or even particularly interesting; politicians are greedy power junkies who will lie and cheat and steal and sacrifice small children to feed their stupid habit and the only rule is Don’t Get Caught and even that one doesn’t seem to matter anymore. But for all its foibles politics is power – power to make things happen or to stop them from happening, for good or for ill. And it’s all we have.
Human rights, civil rights, legal rights, workers rights, freedom – these are not God-given rights, they are ideas, ideas that live or die on political will.
By all means pray to your god to deliver us from water shortages, climate change and the tyranny of small men. But don’t count on Devine Will to cut our carbon emissions or stop industries and irrigators sucking drinking water by the gigalitre or even to punish the wicked. These things hang on political will.
By all means put your faith in science and engineering, in clever, interested and passionate people, perhaps capable of fixing anything broken. But don’t count on them to pay for their solutions. For that you need a political fix.
Politics is everything and we are fast approaching the pointy end of the season in the only game that really counts. When the time comes think and think hard, pray if you must, and vote.
And for God’s sake don’t screw it up again.
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I have to agree with you, the politic animal forgets WHO voted for them. When it comes to voting it will usually follows the party line to survive, that’s why the media record concious votes because they are so unusua. It appears to has a rule ‘You only get sacked for being CAUGHT doing something bad AND not ACTUALLY something bad so do it!’
I think it is time that lobby groups start to put pressure on politicians as a group to make changes, you may as well use the system against itself because changing the politicians does not seem to work at all. If you want to do something it seems that you have to have a high number of votes behind you, so the individual voter is often ignored.
Yeah, vote Labor this time everyone! We’ve got to get the Liberal Party out of government… Little Johnny’s “Workchoices” legislation is horrible… don’t let him swing the camera onto interest rates - even if he DID somehow manage to keep them low, what good are low interest rates when under his medieval work laws you can get fired for any or no reason?
*Runs off to pay ALP membership*
Politics is everything ? - everything but decent, noble, honourable and fair. People we elect to look after us, our young, our old, our sick and our frail, treat us with utter contempt. They cheat and they lie to us and their election promises remain unfulfilled or, worse still, deliberately broken. They are mean individuals interested only in their own selfish lives. Anarchy is the only answer - rebel now before it is too late !
Compare our posts Dr Fell and we clearly agree on almost everything - Politics is a foul business and politicians - those that count anyway - are self-serving ingrates. But that’s hardly the point.
They hold the purse strings, they are the law makers and most importantly THEY ARE OUR SERVANTS and they will respond to political pressure.
Anarchy is no answer - that way lies lawlessness, violence, mayhem and the tyranny of warlords until people are grateful to accept the strong hand of a dictator.
No, give me democracy any day, but let’s make the bastards dance to our tune, whatever that may be.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, foss, and have put it v succinctly. Have you ever thought of running for politics?
Alas, fossil, your screen name is a sign of your thinking. Whilst, personally, I have no problem with lawlessness and violence, the absence of the state and its role of government does not necessarily lead to the tyranny of warlords. Politicians may make the laws but they do not enforce or, to their shame, abide by them. If the state cannot govern me justly and effectively then, naturally, I reserve the right to govern myself in the way that I see fit.
Its a good thing we don’t all think like Dr. Fell. For those who think one voice means little try writing to your local members they sit up and listen every personal letter equates to 200 votes. Write them, question them it works. Don’t take no for an answer, it takes a lot of effort but its worth it.
In some ways it is a pity that more do not think like Dr Fell - while he is clearly antisocial or, at best, thoroughly deluded about the potential for large numbers of human beings to live together without governance – at least he has guts.
He who fears no social unrest or unrestrained violence is unlikely to be lulled by promises of prosperity and creature comforts or the fear of Armageddon.
The good Dr at least sees politicians partly for what they are.
What he does not seem to grasp is that politicians are our slaves – gilded, spoiled slaves I grant you, but slaves nonetheless and they must be beaten and whipped at the ballot box until they learn to pick the corn for all our supper.
I have a long memory about the Federal labour Party… they put the country so far in the red trying to provide everything in their socialist wonderland we have only just recovered. So no vote for you!
On the contrary, brian, it is not a good thing we don’t all think like Dr. Fell. It would at least save my time and patience in explaining to the misinformed.
Only ignorance is invincible.
Is it greed that makes you believe the politician’s fragile promises, fossil ? Do you not believe that you and others have within you the means to achieve these things yourselves ?
Whilst beating and whipping naturally hold appeal for me, I am sure I can find more pleasing subjects than gilded and spoiled slaves.
And please refrain from referring to me as the good Dr. I can assure you that I am anything but that (as a little research may show).
merirosebud I am not soliciting your vote, though clearly I have a preference for the end of the Howard Government and would be only too happy for you to join me in that plight. I merely make the point that we should all be interested and take an active role in politics.
If the present government represents your views, your aspirations and your conscience then by all means take a stand, argue for them and vote for them.
Viv I have thought of running for politics and the thought has made me feel quite ill. Who knows I may mature.