It prevents people who want to be genuine from being totally genuine.
'it' being? a consensus that politics is inauthentic?
not much sense playing if the rules aren't clear...
i'd vote for diane abbott, but i think that she's probably a stooge too.
now that the libdems have sold out, not even that slime vestige of hope remains, no wonder there are so many young, disaffected people in britain. when the working class have only DM to be their champion, well it beggars belief how thoroughly gamed the whole shebang is.
your faith in the future is what i'd bet on, i wish there were choices that really reflected that, and instead of discounting authenticity from the get-go, actually valued it.
till then... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
So people say they want one thing but keep on voting in something else. There are exceptions obviously but in the main those who dominate in politics are of a certain mold and cracking that involves members and voters thinking more carefully about what they value in their representatives. The 'qualities' that people vote for in selections and elections tend to favour men. Again and again and again. Ad astra per aspera
Mash the state - Prospect Magazine « Prospect Magazine
One thing Berners-Lee did have was star power. As Shadbolt puts it: "Secretaries of state and ministers were more interested in meeting him than the other way around." At a meeting with the cabinet this even brought a rare moment of humour, Shadbolt recalls. Berners-Lee was introduced by the prime minister; Jack Straw then said: "Meeting the man who invented the web is like meeting the man who first invented the wheel." Ed Miliband shot back: "And what was the wheel man like, back when you met him too, Jack?" It took a little time to restore order amidst gales of laughter.
A warm sense of humour is a very positive quality and a quick wit implies an agile mind. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
