Elected Representatives

We need to do something. Our elected representatives are a motley crew, increasingly ignorant and stupid. Listen to them. Watch them. The bulk of them are no-nothing party hacks. The crisis in US politics is more public and better documented. There politicians seem to lack shame and willingly parade their  ignorance and stupidity in public. Other countries need take no smug comfort from this debacle. We are also affected. In a quieter more subtle way our politicians reveal similar traits. We need to act. We need to stop electing such people. This is not a party issue. All parties are affected and indeed all parties encourage such people. Ordinary mortals like us need to get our act together and choose and elect a radically different breed to our governments.

TV Presenters.

IT is getting ridiculous. We used to have real people on TV presenting the news and suchlike. No more. It has become a freakshow. They are all constrained to look "well". Botox, plastic surgery and hairpieces are now obligatory. They all talk alike and none of them seems at all like the average person you might meet in the street. TV is a poorer and poorer reflection of life and is becoming like Hollywood - a fantasy dream world of relevance only to a small minority of the population.

Political Readymeals

Do you like cooking?  TV is awash with cookery programmes encouraging us into the kitchen. Kitchen manufacturers spend endlessly to persuade us to install new kitchens. And some of us do both. But! Sales of readymeals grow and grow.We all like the convenience of fast food . We don't want to be endlessly in the kitchen struggling with ingredients and processes.
And so with politicians. They can't for the most part grapple with the complexities of life. Things are complicated and getting harder. Politicians are not the most able people to start with and work is not their favourite pastime. Politically - they can't cook. So what? So they buy a political readymeal- an -ism,  an ideology. Signup to be a something and the pain of thinking goes away. Life is easy, the party tells them what to think and do. Time to relax and reap the rewards.
And these are the people who are governing us. You can't get into government except through a political party. You and I mostly lead our lives well away from political parties, very few of us are members and we would seldom seek their advice or assistance. But they govern us. And they are fed on political readymeals. They have not the slightest idea of how we live, of what we seek or of how to help. Politics is debased to party politics and it needs to change.