Sometimes we lose touch with friends or relatives, but no matter where on the planet they may dwell with modern technology this is easily fixed. Politicians and their parties are increasingly growing out of touch with the people. They appear to live in a world of a self-righteous academia focused on financial status, but are incapable of understanding the most basic concepts of human requirements for survival, or the prosperity of the nation. Very simply, when the health department is starved of funding, ambulances ramping at the emergency wards or being turned away, people are dying of a preventable disease because the government is busy trying to produce favourable economical figures for the next budget and doesn’t want to fund a vaccine, we can say they have ‘lost the plot’ and are unfit to govern.
When, according to the Finance Minister, wage stagnation is a deliberate design feature of the government’s economic architecture while MP’s grant themselves a substantial pay rise circa half the amount of a low income earner’s wage, the same day these low income workers have their penalty rates cut and the Prime Minister talks about abolishing the minimum wage and taxing pensioners, they have lost touch with all morality and decency. This is social distancing to the extreme. When the Treasurer is telling people to get good, well-paying jobs, which are in fact non-existent and that pensioners shouldn’t drive cars so they can survive on a meagre pension, they have not only lost touch, but are totally removed from the real world. In short, Personal ambition, the little sister of ‘corporate greed’ takes priority over the ‘greater good’.
A Federal Treasurer once declared: “the aging population is an economic time bomb for the national economy. Is this all we have become? No heart, no soul, just an undesirable financial burden. Aren’t double dipping young politicians an economic time bomb? Fifty years of hard work and paying taxes accounts for absolutely nothing to arrogant MP’s who have lost touch with everything that matters.
The foundations of democracy are under attack. Corporate crooks’ political donations are buying votes and whole elections in the best rotting democracies money can buy. Shadowed by their underpaid workers, their sins are often white-washed through some tax free or tax deductable daughter company posing as a charity, thus elevating those crooks to Messianic status for gullible people. In its core, a democracy has a government by the people, of the people and for the people; ‘keep dreaming’. Perhaps I am wrong to dream. In reality, the people do rule. They are noisy, ‘out of touch’ minority groups, imposters and fake, self- proclaimed authorities, acting as a ‘political correctness police’.