A Topic For Grown-Ups

I might get shot for writing this, but oh well, here goes.

As everybody knows, they've announced that the elections will be up and running anytime from the end of this year to the start of the next. The results, as always, won't be unpredictable. But then that begs the question, why should they be unpredictable in the first place?

I think it's a valid question. I'm not sure if we really crave to see more support given to the opposition than they already have now even though everybody seems to think so. Pap himself has always asked them what better domestic and foreign policies they could possibly offer that either he or his own ministers haven't thought of. Even the Clock, the most successful of 'foes', as it were, has never brought anything creditably new to the table.

So if it is novelty that people are looking for, it's definitely not what they're going to get, if they're not as silly as they are bored. And they'll be the ones who knowingly determine that in the end. It's a little like a magic trick. You ask how it works, but you don't really want to know, because then it loses its worth to your disillusionment. So in the end, we only cast votes for the illusionists who best mesmerise us on the stage of happiness, prosperity and progress.

It's not a bad thing. It's just, a thing. A generation thing. You see, for any opposition power to truly have a bid for power, it must oppose. Hence opposition. Like duh, right? Well it's really easier said than done. In other words, it has to pinpoint something, find some policy, some ideal about Pap and his men that's really contentious, and then become crusadingly polarised against that, electorally. That's how Lenin did it, that's how Obama did it, so it's doable. After all, Pap was once opposition himself, wasn't he?

Furthermore, there's never been tangible conflict among Pap and his men. Well, not yet. But a new age dawns. Maybe when the friction can no longer be contained, when some men decide to leave and swim to the other bank, maybe that's when the unpredictable will happen. And those men will be the one of the most insightful men to have ever graced this political landscape.

Otherwise, politics has always been a topic for me to avoid, until now. Real politics is like what happens in the workplace, except on a global level. At this level, those who have more power than you can't necessarily fire you if they get pissed, but they can certainly fire at you. It's where being ousted is actually the easiest option. In many ways, it's scarier. Perhaps the most terrifying thing is that it's arousing my interest quite quickly. If this is some telltale sign of growing up, that it gives me yet another reason to miss being childish. That was when making someone angry was as easy to solve as saying sorry.