Dear Editor
Reading your review of the week brought to mind that ‘Politics is’ (or is supposed to be) ‘the art of the possible’ (Bismarck). Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. Politics is now solely about administration of a state that has gorged itself on other people’s money and cares not for the well-being of its citizens. The state has become a monster with no boundaries, crushing aspiration and ambition at every turn. Accountability is purely a ‘nice to have’ but in no way is it seen as an essential component of a well-functioning society; avoidance of accountability has become an art form, with the Pakistani rape gang scandal and the Post Office scandal being just two recent examples that immediately come to mind.
Socialists peddle the lie that their incarnation of collectivism will work when history tells us it is bound to fail. Indeed, that inconvenient truth leads to perversion in education, with the population brainwashed into believing that our past has no lessons; that the miracle of the industrial revolution which lifted millions out of poverty was a grave error that now leaves us facing a climate apocalypse; that our national flag is a source of shame.
The pursuit of the new Utopia has to be underpinned by the destruction of ‘old’ values and the encouragement of new ideologies e.g. trans, self-identification, climate, and more. The pretence that any of the new ideologies improves the individual human condition is an illusion and, of course, the very idea of an individual is characterised as ‘wrong think’. Voices that challenge the new orthodoxy are routinely dismissed by the media, and in extremis can result in legal action in a court system that itself is captured by the new ideologies, rendering the idea of justice obsolete. Would that we had an equivalent of the US Constitution First Amendment: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . . or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble . . .’
I despair.
Sheenagh Gordon-Hart
Luxembourg
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