Net Zero Politicians: Liars, Scoundrels, And Morons
BY ALEXANDRA MARSHALL ON MAY 23, 2023.
Net Zero Politicians: Liars, Scoundrels, And Morons
The lies told by politicians usually have no consequences. Their intellectual dishonesty, as a species, is such that citizens go to the polls assuming election promises have an expiry date similar to nine-day-old milk.
If the lie is a promise to ‘lower taxes’, the inevitable raising of taxes several months later is met with a groan in the same way that the purchaser of a used car sees an oil stain develop on the garage floor. [emphasis, links added]
There’s a sense of resignation rather than rage. After all, you’re the one that shook hands with a shonky dealer.
Fast-forward three years, and that same politician is likely to be re-elected on a follow-up promise to subsidize mechanicsworking on repairs for all leaking and broken used cars – provided they become members of a union.
Do you see how this works?
Even though people were ripped off by failed election promises the first time, they are motivated to vote for the same bunch of scoundrels in the hope they’ll fix the problem their policies caused.
Then we have a whole new group of mechanics tempted by government-contracted work that they can only secure if they make a permanent commitment to an institution aligned with that political party.
Is this kind of governance good for society? No. It encourages the sale of crap cars and a generation of mechanics who earn their living from failed government policy.
The only clever thing it does is create a cycle of dependencewhere each broken election promise serves as a platform for the next campaign. Solving problems is a thankless task, but creating them … well, that’s genius.
Remember the Covid era? Governments in every state employed hundreds of thousands of ‘health’ workers to man vaccine booths, check vaccine certificates, work in quarantine centers, clean public spaces, and police the behavior of citizens.
It was a Goliath, publicly-funded industry that encouraged all of those people to vote for politicians who promised to protect Covid jobs. Is it good for society to remain in a permanent pandemic state? No.
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