GARETH VAN ONSELEN: Useless politicians come from a useless public
Garbage in, garbage out, as the saying goes, and the saying really applies in SA where the voting public is complicit in the political rubbish
20 August 2020 - 05:05
Every day, as has been the case for a decade now, we climb into politicians with a rhetorical sledge hammer. What a ghastly bunch of self-serving, corrupt, incompetent bastards, each and every one.
It’s an odd position when you consider that politicians come from somewhere. And that somewhere is the public. They come from us. They are a general extension and measure of the quality that defines the society from which they are drawn...
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