I’m tired of politicians who “say what we feel.” After all, that’s why we have cabaret performers, political satire and other entertainers, to “speak for us” or “express what we feel.” A politician is put into office and paid to push for change. And if he doesn’t have enough power at the moment (perhaps because his party didn’t get more votes), then he should have a clear plan to get that power. Does he want to spend the next 20 years criticizing the situation without changing anything?
An opposition that grumbles about social conditions but takes no concrete steps to change them, or takes only purely ritualistic steps, such an opposition is useless.
An opposition that grumbles about social conditions but takes no concrete steps to change them, or takes only purely ritualistic steps (for example, tabling motions in parliament that it knows in advance will be rejected), such an opposition is useless. It is even questionable whether such an opposition does not live in a de facto symbiosis with the ruling power and whether its activity does not actually consist in preventing the pursuit of real change.
