Politics right, or left, or even wrong?

We have complained quite a few times about the quality of politicians. But why do we have to do that? Writing or saying it is easy enough but is it the reality? The facts are politicians exist as a subgroup of volunteers who generally tend to be at the extremes of belief systems. The belief systems being the right and left of the political spectrum. That seems a stark exclamation but the reality shows it to be true. Obviously, there are also those who are at varying positions within that spectrum. In general, people have enabled mentally and morally deformed leaders to take control. Good people cannot be bothered to go into politics. This statement seems particularly true of the two power-blocks, the US and Russia. So, what about the UK? I wouldn’t declare Starmer and Co as morally defunct or deformed but there are questions about their political acumen and ideas about what is truth.

One of the questions I struggle with is what should politics be about? First and foremost it should be about the welfare of its citizens. That doesn’t mean a free for all social freebie system, like we now see in the UK. It also doesn’t mean opening the doors to all and sundry and in such a manner destroying the existing social structures. The idea of a free health system seems a brilliant way to ensure the health of the nation but again in reality it comes with a price which might be far in excess of what is affordable.

Secondly, politics should be about finding ways of dealing with the outside world, that also includes the possibility of competition, unfair as well as fair. It may even include finding the nation has enemies. So, thirdly politics needs to ensure the nation can defend itself. Either alone or in tandem with a defensive organisation such as NATO. Even then within such organisations there will be changing parameters, technological as well as human. Viewing NATO today showing the reality of changing views. Views of cost, who pays what and who is the leader.

These three are most important, and unfortunately it has become clear politicians instead of getting the basics in place properly they seem to prefer tinkering around the edges. Solving a problem which throws up ten new problems. A situation occurring both in autocratic systems as well as democratic. Although in autocratic systems they are mostly hidden by force but they still happen. One of the problems when a government starts listening and acting upon the ideas of fringe groups are laws being passed that do not benefit the general population. One such being the idea that women can have a penis. There are more such ideas, the ‘freedom’ to decide whether you can change the gender which you are born with and allow minors to decide. As it stands it seems incomprehensible that a government can and will institute laws on a whim to facilitate such ideas. We may believe in the idea that people are something akin to gods but the reality is we are still animals, mammalian and subject to the same natural impulses that we were born with. Perhaps governments need to understand it better without jumping to immediate conclusions which in the main have been detrimental to our society.