I used to castigate people for not voting, especially those who complained about the state of the nation. And for the most part I still do.
But I am coming to the point where I am having doubts as to the value of putting a cross in a box as an indication of being part of society, and entitled to have expectations of it.
Both the Brexit referendum and the presidential election in the US proved one thing above anything else – you can say whatever you like to win. Lies, blatant lies, flew around like confetti. And yes, there were truth-checkers but not enough, not loud enough, and not listened too in enough numbers.
And so the lies and the revisionists won.
And after the win, the denials. The reversals.
But, even worse, the acknowledgement of what was said to win, but that, having won, it really doesn’t matter. It doesn’t count, because that was before and this is now.
So, expediency is all. Trump can make the most outlandish, racist, misogynistic statements. He can accuse just about everyone of just about anything. But he is now the president, and therefore our esteemed representatives genuflect and bend the knee.
Boris Johnson can say whatever jumps to the front of his duplicitous mind pre and post Brexit vote, and then either deny or dismiss it as irrelevant as ‘that was then’. He can insert foot after foot into mouth, and no longer suffer any consequences.
And go out into the world to represent us – the whole country.
And now even the apparently honourable leader of the opposition, voted for by me because I actually thought that principle counted, accepts the expediency of upholding the undemocratic referendum result as fact.
So who is left to actually speak out for truth?
At the moment, on the political stage, it would seem to be the Liberals.
Who would have thought!
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