Circles
It would be funny if it weren’t so boring.
Last month we had the tedium of a general election. This month we have had to tolerate the political mob “trying to form a government”.
So what has all this achieved? Nothing. Basically nothing has changed with the minor [but very pleasing] demolition of the Green mob. The independent crowd have done well and have garnered themselves a place at the money trough with some blatantly transparent “jobs for the boys” – some hastily invented Super Junior Ministries to had out to the independents in return for backing the gubmint.
I said at the outset that nothing would change. There is no great political insight there, as basically we have a one party state. Since Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael all but coalesced there is no beating them. We are condemned to an endless string of the same mob for the foreseeable future and beyond. As far as I can make out, the only two things to come out of the election are a decreased VAT rate for my coffee shop [though that is marginally welcome] and a new transport police force. They could have instigated those and saved us the mess of a general election?
We will continue to have elections as we have to pretend we are a democratic society, but at this stage it is merely a pretense.
It’s like the old joke about the Whirly-Whirly Bird…
It flies around in ever decreasing circles until it flies up its own arse.
“We will continue to have elections as we have to pretend we are a democratic society, but at this stage it is merely a pretense.”
This is the same boat that Oregon conservatives (and I am one of them) are in.
The western side of the state has the population (liberal) and the conservative side eastern (where I am) has more sage brush and juniper trees than people. (If only we could get the juniper and sage registered to vote.)
I’m convinced they are smarter than the people in Portland.
But at least there is an alternative in the States – Republican or Democrat. Here it’s Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael Not that much of a choice? There is the theoretical possibility of Sinn Féin but that remains just a theory.
I take a great deal of solace in the fact that at my age I won’t have many more years of foolish leaders (and I use the term leaders very loosely) to deal with much longer.
To my kids and grand kids, hey I tried!