The ordinary people are routinely ignored by politicians.
They Listen, then completely do what they wanted to do "In the national interest" without any further reference to the people they suppose to represent.
Sound familiar?.......its the way politics is done in the modern world all over.
What they fear is an informed electorate, one that can scrutinise, ask questions, see through the spin and the hyperbole of "political speak".
Now in the modern age we have all this analysis every day, we are the most informed electorate in history, so what is going wrong?
Simple its the sloth like Apathy, of those who believe they understand whats going on in the world, from behind a screen, fed a diet of news so vast its impossible to take it all in. Politics becomes a blizzard or soundbites, tweets, and false outrage on every subject going.
Its the little boy who cries wolf, we hear of "crazy" "outrageous" "unbelievable" "Fantastic" a hundred times every morning, we choose to read the articles that feed our own view on life to re assert our own belief that we are right, we get caught up in the maelstrom of tweets podcasts blogs speeches news items newspaper comments news programs........and it all becomes somehow unreal, distant.
It seems its not happening to me, somehow away from my community and the people I know. Slowly 24 hour news has pushed us away from the communities we live in. Feeding Apathy
When the steel works closes, it is part of the maelstrom for a few days and few weeks if you are lucky, then it is gone. Feeding Apathy
Yet in the homes of that community a festering resentment of a world that does no longer care or know about them breeds the need to search for someone to blame. Farage and Trump know this and feed them all they need to get them to kick back at the system, to get revenge. They through the press and media drip drip the poison of blaming others for the world ills. Only they can fix the problem, only they can "Drain the swamp"
ANYONE who does not agree with them is a "Traitor" to the country, part of the conspiracy. Anyone who finds themselves wanting to kick the establishment are suckered into these promises of change, is part of the peoples army taking back control. However its never taking back control its always handing control to another power block, who will always treat the people with the same contempt as before, but with the added value of coast to coast hate and prejudice, alive out of the box and violence erupting on the streets.
Trump will feed the Monster, why because while he is getting what he wants from the deal, power and influence and a massive ego trip and huge amounts of cash, he has to keep his faux allies on side. All politicians know that their careers will end in tears, so he will get out in good time, but not before he has created divisions that will take generations to heal.
So it is activists who win arguments, activists who shape events, activists who get into the community and hear real people not just media opinions. It is only activists who can get off their arses and stop the rise of people like Trump and Farage.
If you are not an activist, then you just have to stop moaning about the world. Start writing letters, asking questions, digging deeper, challenging opinions, dont let politics happen to you. Get informed, join groups, challenge the executive from a position of power, know how politics gets into your life and make a difference.
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