Some readers will be old enough to remember a popular New Zealand TV show called 'On The Mat'.It featured bawdy big-time wrestlers and was full of faux anger, irate indignation and pretend pain. But audiences loved it. People bought it. People believed it.
I wonder if tonight's debate between Clark and Key will satisfy the same shallow emotions? After all the two main parties are essentially caricatures of true opponents. They'll strut and glower, feign animosity and moral superiority; one may even take a pummelling, but at the end of the night they'll walk off together, with our money in their pockets.
2 comments:
The right wing and the left wing are just the two ends of the stick we are being beaten with.
Dave Christian
Politics in recent decades turned into just any oversecure, overpaid, governmental job. Recently it also turned into (dis)amususement industry in line with Jerry Springer etc.
And again, this is happening in politics all over the world.
Why are we buying all this crap, over and over?
JohNZ
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