Time to find our own way out
ANN CROTTY: Government has abandoned us in the way alcoholic parents abandon their children
This means there’s lots of nerve-racking anticipation of the next time they stumble in the door drunk with all manner of destructive plans for what to do with the house or the family
The Government, or at least large chunks of the cabinet that are supposed to give government direction, seem to have abandoned us. They haven’t abandoned us in the way so beloved of the free-market brigade, which is to step aside and leave everything to the fabled invisible hand of the market. Neither have they abandoned us to some Kropotkin-style anarchistic idyll where voluntary associations of self-governing communities spring up in their place. They’ve abandoned us in the way a pair of alcoholic parents abandon their children, which is to say erratically. This means there’s lots of nerve-racking anticipation of the next time they stumble in the door drunk with all manner of destructive plans for what to do with the house or the family.The country faces the additional challenge akin to dealing with a trashy new neighbour who has inveigled his way into the parents’ good graces and, in exchange for the equivalent of the odd bottle of booze, has managed to get his hands on almost ev...
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