Respect - Or The Loss Of It

 I remember being told to respect my elders and betters.  There are few left to respect these days I think.  The odd person you see or hear but generally, the "celebrities", the newsreaders, the reporters and worse of all, the politicians are odious characters.

The BBC, once the bastion of reporting was stating that the AfD party in Germany were far right like the party that was voted in before the second world war?  Huh?  The National Socialist Party were voted in and they were, as the name clearly states, socialists. The brainwashing that goes as reporting these days and the use of weaponized words actually doesn't have the affect that they want, it does the opposite, it makes me suspicious and ultimately these words lose their power as they are invariably used out of context and they no longer shock which is when you should reserve the use of such words to impact what you are saying.  Everything these days cannot be the way they describe them and we've run out of adjectives to use.

People are desperate to stay relevant and the trouble is, the more they do that the worse a job they make of it.  "It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."  We are being played and our time as a big power in the world has eroded fast in the last few years.  The robot Prime Minister we have now doesn't seem capable of being a big stage player and has no real say in matters even though he thinks he does.

So respect, how do you earn respect?  How about not taking me for a fool, not taking my money, not being a complete dickhead when you speak, not acting like a spoiled child when criticized.  How about answering a question truthfully, not lying all the time, not blaming anyone but yourself because, you know, you're in charge now and the buck stops with you.  Because these people have never held down a real job (no matter what their CV might say) they don't have the character or mentality to tackle the work ahead of them in a controlled, disciplined and planned manner.  Without proper planning and good management failure comes as a complete shock to them, they thought that writing it on a bit of paper would make it happen, they don't seem to have a clue.  Called to high office, they haven't a scooby.

Earn our respect by doing the things that need doing no matter how hard they are and by doing them for the benefit of all especially us, the tax payers who they come to time and again to prop up their failures.  People only have so much tolerance and so much money too.  A laffer curve ought to be etched into everyone of their portfolio cases so they continually have the reality of their actions before their eyes.  Socialism hasn't worked EVER.  It cannot work in the way they want - a big state produces nothing and consumes everything it comes into contact with. It stifles everything and rewards no participants with the diminishing wealth of the working classes who were meant to benefit from these policies.

When will the people withdraw their consent?  When will they stop the bread and circuses and see through this awful period in our history?  I think it is gradual but more people need to wake up.