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It’s #AmyRemeikis at her best. Her latest article here is a short and concise compendium of everything that is wrong in our society with the blame squarely unloaded onto our #PoliticalClass for what is, after all is said and done, just **more of the same**.
In her book *How to Argue with an Economist*, #LindyEdwards succinclty describes the problem that is the cause of all the issues we are angry about when she describes the circumstances under which our #PoliticalLeaders find themselves. On the one hand we have an #EconomicBureaucracy inculcated into the falacy that is #EconomicRationalism where #markets are the only *drivers* of our economy. And on the other hand we have all of us, the *Prols*, *Punters*, left behind to pick up the pieces, all the poorer, frustrated, angry to the point of hopelesness.
Our #Politicians sit in between those two very different camps, one camp pushing *dogmatic* beliefs that there are no alternative ways to grow and prosper. And then there is all of us that are left behind as wealth flows to the top. Currently our *Leaders* are hoodwinked by the *economists* and we barely getting a look at, just enough to keep us in line (no one wants a bloody revolution, or even any sizeable angry mod on the street — as police presence makes it plain).
Are there any answers to our dilema? There sure are. It’s all about **change**, changes in the kind of political leadership we elect to represent us, to put the *people* first, not the *markets*, in our economic system. So we cannot afford any further drift to the *right-wing* of politics folks because there lies nothing but **more of the same**.
In our reading of Amy’s article, we can pick any of the small number of short paragraphs she writes and each and everyone of these are enough to start us thinking, have a conversation, participate in a public airing of our discontent (aka political activism) and perhaps bring some clarity into what we need to do with our vote for the #2028Elections.