It's a buffet of crappy options. It's like deciding if we would prefer to be shot or poisoned.
They're all useless, craven, and in thrall to an ideology the voters want nothing to do with.
The big picture answer (as I see it) isn't to elect my particular 'team', or find a new 'star' and 'saviour' to elevate. They will all disappoint us in the end. A big part of why we hate our leaders more with each decade is that they're becoming bigger and bigger figures in our lives — the entire apparatus of state is. And the larger the state grows, the more inept and corrupt it becomes, which is inevitable.
I believe the answer is to de-fang and de-centralise the system in such a way that the state has less power and influence in our lives. Way, way less. We need to beat back the state until it resides once again 'over there'. We should aim to return to time when nobody can name the Chancellor, because who cares who he is. Politics should be at the fringe of our lives, not in the centre of it, as it is currently. The state should get out of classrooms, bedrooms, parent/child relationships, and my pocket. A radical reduction in the remit of government would make the whole circus less glamorous and profitable, which would weed out some of the grifters and sociopaths organically. And some other upsides of them doing less: there's less for them to screw up; we get to keep more of our money (good for the economy); it would give us greater liberty [since liberty & government inhabit the same space - more of one necessarily means less of the other].
It will take time to get there and will be chaotic (understatement!), but I think that should be the goal. Give these clowns way less power over our lives. Over anything really.
True Mark, I agree with you.
It's a buffet of crappy options. It's like deciding if we would prefer to be shot or poisoned.
They're all useless, craven, and in thrall to an ideology the voters want nothing to do with.
The big picture answer (as I see it) isn't to elect my particular 'team', or find a new 'star' and 'saviour' to elevate. They will all disappoint us in the end. A big part of why we hate our leaders more with each decade is that they're becoming bigger and bigger figures in our lives — the entire apparatus of state is. And the larger the state grows, the more inept and corrupt it becomes, which is inevitable.
I believe the answer is to de-fang and de-centralise the system in such a way that the state has less power and influence in our lives. Way, way less. We need to beat back the state until it resides once again 'over there'. We should aim to return to time when nobody can name the Chancellor, because who cares who he is. Politics should be at the fringe of our lives, not in the centre of it, as it is currently. The state should get out of classrooms, bedrooms, parent/child relationships, and my pocket. A radical reduction in the remit of government would make the whole circus less glamorous and profitable, which would weed out some of the grifters and sociopaths organically. And some other upsides of them doing less: there's less for them to screw up; we get to keep more of our money (good for the economy); it would give us greater liberty [since liberty & government inhabit the same space - more of one necessarily means less of the other].
It will take time to get there and will be chaotic (understatement!), but I think that should be the goal. Give these clowns way less power over our lives. Over anything really.
I couldn’t have said it better myself! I completely agree, I just don’t have a clue how we get from here to there…