Politicians make our problems
Personal View
It’s only when we follow politics in any detail that we come to realise just how truly dangerous politicians are over time.
That remark was prompted by the World Health Organisation’s admission that the H1N1 virus, so-called Swine ‘Flu, has now run its course. Its overall impact was considerably less than normal winter ‘flu, yet the “international community” went into one its familiar bouts of hysteria.
The then premier Gordon Brown leapt at the chance of being hailed as Superman and spent around £2billion of our money on palliative drugs — all wasted. Vulnerable people were frightened for no reason, and the drug companies made billions.
We need a fairly long perspective to get at the truth in these matters — just like climate change. A hundred years is not enough to mark out the longer cycles which have the most potential for wreaking damage. Recent ups and downs are blips on the graph. Yet our short-termist politicos obsess most about them.
Here’s an itemised account of the current problems in the political landscape:
1. The national financial and economic crises.
2. The war in Afghanistan and the problem of Pakistan.
3. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW).
4. Supposed peak oil and oil prices.
5. Hospital superbugs.
6. The nation-eating superbug called European union.
7. Caliphate terrorism in Britain.
8. The wanton dismemberment of our national institutions.
All of these current crises are politician-made at the core point of their emergence. I won’t dig into all of them, it would take too long, but you will get the drift.
In the meantime, our politicians are seemingly intent on creating growthless economies across the West, while China and other developing nations can continue building smoking power stations for ever. We can hope that, in Britain at least, that phase may be over.
We will actually pay them, through carbon trading schemes administered by the UN and EU, to overtake our own industries in productive capacity, based on the limpest non sequitur in scientific history. The politicians are dealing us a pointless death by a thousand cuts, consuming our wealth like dissolute Roman emperors. You can trace a similar trajectory through all of the items listed above.
Short-termist career politicians, with no experience of the real world or knowledge of human nature, are “doing politics” by manipulation, and wrecking the Western world in the process.