While working democracies debate economic growth and food security, we applaud our leaders for promising to collect the rubbish on time.
Voters in line at the Northfield Methodist church in Benoni on voting day, 8th May 2019. Picture: Neil McCartney
Sure, it strikes the fear of hell within me to know that those tasked with running the country can’t seem to run their own party, but that’s hardly as scary as admitting that we’re not really making this democracy thing work for us. C’mon! A decision on who is going to rule us coming down to who looks better in rain-soaked cardboard. Is that what our democracy has come to?
The idea of moving somewhere where democracy is made to work is appealing, because obviously the grass is greener on the other side, but it’s not by virtue of it being on the other side. It’s by virtue of the grass being watered.
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