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Syre Byrd's avatar

Yes. Also however in a democracy the people, voters, are the font from which political power flows. We should have been active, watching, demanding the best standards.

We have become careless. Compliant. Looking to politicians to solve and salve the issues instead of directing their values and policies to reflect the best of us?

If that is also true in any part….then I also am responsible because I am/ have been a participant in that body politic.

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Martin T's avatar

Thanks for sharing these wise thoughts. I feel we have been so badly let down at so many levels, and yet it is hardly surprising no one wants to talk about this. The subject has already disappeared from the media. The level of complicity and cowardice is too extensive to digest - so many people at so many levels of society - politics, police, media, social services, schools, hospitals, and so on. It says a lot about the moral character of our society - and to the extent that it is ‘our’ we swim in the same sea. We come out covered in the same toxic sludge and share the cost of cleaning it off (if we get round to this).

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Syre Byrd's avatar

Exactly. You articulate how I feel and think. Im not happy and thus refuse to swim in that culture anymore. Im looking for… healthier options

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GH's avatar

You do realise the current party has only been in power for six months? You do know they proposed various actions to address this when in opposition for the last fourteen years?

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Wolfgang's avatar

A fish rots from the head down.

When an organization or state fails, it is the leadership that is the root cause.

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