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I’d like to ask you a very simple question Tynan. Do you still, if you ever did, believe in emancipatory politics? There’s really no other useful kind – anything else is just bland accountancy. If the answer’s no, which I suspect it is, then you’ll know why any politician of whatever persuasion never follows through with great pledges. They just can’t, and never intend to.
If somehow they can, then they’ll rob Peter to pay Paul. Maybe something is scrapped, but some other area will be taxed to pay for it. There’s no other way out of this double-bind. Politics is sloganeering and empty rhetoric. How many times have you heard ‘time for change’?. From what, to what? Change is supposed to mean difference, another way, but nowadays it means anything but, and serves as the de-facto, cop-out position. It means less than nothing.
I happen to like politics despite my opinions on it, but the truth of it, if there’s such a thing, is boringly straightforward; it’s really as full of shit as you fear it to be, and as brazen with its disregard to ethics and honesty that all of us find so mind-boggling and predictable.