TOM EATON: Might as well say it, we're addicted to bad government
'Our addiction to bad government is starting to get embarrassing. Seriously: people are looking at us and pointing'
07 November 2017 - 07:56
We know bad government: how it gleams in its bulletproof cars and struts in its pointy shoes; how it smiles at us through dead eyes; how, when the smile drops away like a dry scab, it grinds hope and potential into dust, and calls the grinding progress. Yes, we know bad government. So well, in fact, that we don't have a clue what good government is. Ask most of us what it looks like, and we offer a halting series of half-formed Scandinavian-ish clichés combined with a general sense of Not This.
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