Countries get the leaders they deserve? America, Britain, Russia, Hungary, South Africa et al? Sure, well deserved, no question. But what on earth did Australia do to deserve Acting Prime Minster Barnaby Joyce?
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The human race is faced with a lot of disasters, current and future – global warming, fundamentalism, terrorism, wars, famines, anti-intellectualism, pollution of air and water. But I am afraid a shortage of prawns (a result of disease) to sell in Australia at Easter 2017 is not one of them. \”FishCo owner John Fragopoulos can\’t find
Saying you are a \”centrist politician\” is like saying you are an agnostic. In both cases there is a failure to recognise that there is no middle position, that you have to actually settle for either reality or nonsense, there is nothing in between.
Forget the \”pub test\” (I mean, seriously, was there actually anyone in the world who would have wanted to have a beer with GW Bush?), use the \”threshold test\”. Try to think of a politician anywhere in the world who you would actually allow to cross the threshold into your home. Give up? Me too.
Whatever the problem – imaginary, real, perceived, short-term, economic, agricultural, tourist, infrastructure, forestry, transport, big, small – the answer, throughout history, has been “kill the animals”.
To earn the title of Homo sapiens we would have to live on a planet whose history didn\’t consist of wars and rumours of war, and planning for war, and not planning for the aftermath of war, and glorifying the heroism of war, and finding reasons to go to war, and justifying war, and having a
There is no idea so insane, so obviously untrue, so, well, moronic, that somebody, somewhere, some time, won\’t believe in it fervently with an unshakeable certainty, and convince thousands of other members of the species to believe it too.
Why isn\’t there a crime of perjury in everyday life? And for politicians.
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As Chesterton should have said: If you can take a person away from reality you can have them believing in naturopathy, past-life regression, chiropractic, neoconservatism, ideology, climate denial, austerity, alt-right, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, religion, ghosts, clairvoyance, anything really.
Are the levels of stupidity, ignorance and malice higher among politicians than in the general public? Hmmmmm …. no, probably not (the politicians we deserve -), probably same proportion, but politicians have a much greater ability to hide these characteristics than the average. Before elections anyway.
