Talk about a Pathetic lot of Politicians …

If the recent fire storms or gushing floods weren’t enough to convince you all that we are currently being governed by a bunch of amateurs, who can’t organise a picnic let alone a whole city being evacuated. Now, I don’t mean the volunteer or RFS Personnel that were the beacons of strength and courage during this unprecedented natural disaster, but rather our elected politicians, that bunch of rabble that are so consumed with self-preservation and self-promotion they forget that the rest of Australia was watching.

Take for example that philistine of a Prime Minister we currently have, the one who thought it would be a good idea to “keep his promise to his kids … “ and take them to Hawaii while thousands upon thousands of Australians were being engulfed in these torturous flames and the rest of suburban Australia (and most of the world) looked on in horror.

I watched this all unfolding and the voices of those who began to point blame at the ‘lack of hazard reduction’ undertaken throughout several years by the RFS, at the policy direction of successive governments (lobbied by environmental groups). Many sheeted blame at ‘the Greens’ for causing a build-up of dry understory in many, if not most areas of native vegetation in every State in Australia. The Greens’ certainly promote policies of prohibiting (or outlawing) ‘asset protection zones’ of at least 150 metres around populated areas. In my view there is traction and a definite nexus between the ferocity of these recent fires and their ability to endanger life and homes, the empirical facts of the recent events have (to a great degree) confirmed this.

Now, I’m not a climate scientist, an environmental warrior or a promoter of unsustainable development, but I am a pragmatist and contentious citizen. I am a progressive who strongly believes that we must continually strive for better and smarter ways to live on this isolated planet without doing intentional harm to her or any other human being (or animal for that matter). Even something as simple and essential to us as water, must always be moving otherwise it becomes stagnate and unhealthy. We must become like water, we must find ways to adapt and reshape, this is what has propelled humanity to be able to cure diseases and give us longer and healthier lives. The old adage that “you are what you eat” could not be truer. Eat junk, and your life will be junked, eat well and you’ll live well.

Back to my swipe at our Polies, throughout this crisis, forgive me for lumping them all together, but truly, they all came across (to me) as either insincere, inept or unable to connect with what was the palpable suffering of their fellow Australians. For many it was a revelation, not me. For me, it was just confirmation that we have an electorate that has fallen into a slumber thanks to the cues of somewhat controlled Main Stream Media.

These clowns who decide what we read and talk about daily, who actually created the likes of Donald Trump, who champion people like Barnaby Joyce as ‘the best retail politician in Australia’ …. I read the headline just the other day that Andrew Constance was ‘Premiership material’ because of his performance on Q & A … please, I think Humphrey B Bear would do a better job and he can’t even speak. No, the time is beckoning in Australia for a new perspective, with new ideas new visions and perhaps guided by a ‘New Generation’ of politicians who truly understand the significance and importance of what our constitution calls ‘responsible self-government’.

Lookout, Labor, Liberal, National and Greens time to shift politics into a ‘new paradigm’ stay tuned.