The rain has stopped here, beautiful sunny day so will get into pulling the turbo of my cruiser and hopefully it will be the problem of sudden oil usage. Got a new one on the way and if it's not the oil seals in the turbo, a full engine rebuild is on the cards.
I like the idea of people not agreeing, it's how we share knowledge and idea's and would be a boring world if everyone agreed, making us all simple clones. It's logical people are in disagreement over this virus, but only the truly ideologically blind would fail to see the reality of the Rump. Rump is a reflection of the syndrome humanity is living in and that's denial of the reality of society, it's direction and application to the future.
Ideologues use the logic of hope, which we all know throughout history, hope is just empty delusion and never, has an ideological claim come true. One look at our politics over the last 50 years shows deluded hope is what politicians rely upon and they reinforce that empty hope with deception, lies and corrupt practices.
Most of us on the forum have memories of how things were 60+ years ago, jobs galore with a vibrant manufacturing industry producing high quality goods. Growing standard of living, relative safety on our streets and lots of free time for sport and family time with the 4 and a half day week. Cheap public transport because the people owned most of it including an airline and banks to keep corporations in line and stop price gouging and profit growth at any cost and not wall to wall people. The country virtually shutdown for 4 weeks each year and everyone was pretty happy.
Then our wonderful politicians sold off everything the people owned, so no more income from all those relevant industries, it goes into the pockets of just a few vested interests of the political system. This allowed political vested interests to drive profit growth, lower services, more expensive goods and services and allowing massive overseas corporations and governments to take over our resources, major industries, farms and businesses. Our once state of the art defence forces and industry is dead, we rely totally upon overseas interests to provide us with second rate expensive defence equipment and support.
To maintain profit growth at any cost, politicians removed controls over business allowing them free reign to raise prices as they see fit and reduce employment and services until they are almost non existent, other than to take our money. Now we pay to drive on roads, have a virtual police state that is dedicated to raising revenue from the people to keep pollies in power and the people suppressed.
This has brought us to this point where we are now confronted by deadly viruses, climate change, global warming, collapsing water ways and ecological systems. Which has provided the perfect environment for the Rumps of the world and that includes all world leaders, to do as they please and not be held accountable for anything they do. When caught out they get a slap on the wrist whilst everyone else would go to jail, then they retire on our money after wasting hundreds of billions of dollars during their time and again no accountability.
So their logical, like the Rumps is unbeatable, because they hold the power to suppress truth and accountability. Not a good sign for the future. Off to get oily and pissed off working on the cruiser, before the clouds come back and the rain.
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