White is Right

Its the pentannual return of the 'white outside and anything but inside' crowd of seekers. As they hypnotize their audiences into believing everything they say or claim that they will do, gently argue with their competition as if they and the manifesto they represent have always had all the answers or project their secular credentials to gullible masses; hoping to subliminally project their virtues through their starched white garb. Garb it is, so easy to see through if you only look beyond the pretty television anchors who feed them with appropriate questions depending on who has been buttering their bread or whosever's ideology they wish to push. So much for independant media. How independant can you get when the larger parties are spending millions in advertising bucks on your channel. Not to miss the youthful second or sometimes third generation politician. His clothes even whiter, after all the elders probably spent the last few decades whitening their wealth in foreign lands helping to pay for those fancy overseas degrees among other things, allowing him to talk guilt free about many things. Do urban voters or their real needs, really matter? We know the answer to that. Ninety percent of the vote bank lives in non urban zones and its a majority wins model. Yet we keep trying. Our family made six trips to the local office to get a Voters ID card. Sure, persevere and all that, but it was almost as if  'lets make it so difficult that they hopefully give up' attitude that has shone through the process. How concerned are we that most of our elected representatives have got richer by anywhere from five to one hundred times between the last election and now? Why have we never heard of an income tax notice served on a mainstream politician? Yes the rot that set many years ago is seemingly sinking the ship.  With another likely coalition staring us in the face maybe a third or fourth front of opportunists who will see it as their turn to make merry while the middle class watch their soaps, the poor die and the rich and capable ignore it all. So its not religious divide or communal lines that we should be worried about. These are red herrings in front of us. It's the slow (at times fast) bleeding and plundering of the wealth and self respect of this great land (whatever was left of it by the Brits of course) by the few that we choose to let govern us, that we should be scared to death of. So go out and vote but more importantly speak out against the daily atrocity of shabby and corrupt governance that you see around you. We can make the difference only if we consciously and actively demand the revival of the values that our country once stood for.