Our democracy is being torn asunder by financial greed
BRAZENLY looting from funds allocated to procure equipment to fight a raging plague is tantamount to treason.
Across our political spectrum there is a deep sense of crisis.
Our hard-fought and hard-worn democracy is being torn asunder in an orgy of naked financial greed that is breathtaking in its scope and pulverising in its depth.
The nation has been betrayed at a time of crisis unparalled in our history. This brutal act of betrayal is a transgression that requires the severest form of sanction and punishment that is permissible under our legal system.
In 1994, our nation, after decades of oppression, became a constitutional democracy.
Law is the fulcrum of democracy, and democracy is what holds people together without force. Elite profligacy in the face of impoverished citizens underscores the core problem facing our troubled land -- corruption. .
Far from paying for the deceits, participants, are rewarded with power. In Parliament, and other institutions, they are referred to as honourable members.
There is no honour among thieves. The fury and frustration this engenders runs wide and deep. Powering it is anger at a political system that is not doing what it’s supposed to do. Many feel there is something deeply repugnant at work in our politics that should not be buried under heaps of levity, however pointed.
The majority of our leaders resort to blatantly immoral means, such as lies and deception, to manipulate the populace. The tragedy of our time and country is that we have allowed money politics to be the order of the day in our political culture.The actions of those who looted PPE designated funds are reprehensible and worthy of the severest condemnation.
Can our beleaguered nation make a U-turn from ruthless greed to the rule of law, from shameless money hunger to moral rectitude.
Our leaders continually fail to live up to our expectations. Many of them are, at best, amoral.
It was British writer George Orwell (1903-1950) who uttered these profound words: “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices”.
After a brief period of comments from our leaders about the critical state of affairs, the incumbents will be joined by the recycled, the neophytes, the bizarre and the exhibitionists, all wanting a piece of the action and a huge chunk of the cake.