A Surfeit

Another weekend of politics … and we are but one year into the five-year term of the current administration. One begins to wonder whether we shall ever get any respite from the intrigue, shenanigans, backbiting, and agenda-serving actions of a small group of individuals who keep vying for supremacy over each other and in the process succeed in monopolizing all our energies, channelling them into discussing and worrying about what their next moves could turn out to be.
Unfortunately, because of the system of governance of small countries like ours, what these mainly-self-serving individuals do just happens to have enormous effect on everything that influences our lives (even to the extent of our self preservation: they fashion our health programmes, oversee our law-enforcement, control and regulate everything that is brought into the country – a lot of which we depend on just to be able to survive, etc.), we are forced to look on and endure their games, their machinations, their manipulations, their intrigues … with equanimity – some of us, even with passion.

The regulation of a country’s affairs by an elected governing body is not only beneficial, but desirable. But there are periods (every five years in our case) when one expects to be inundated by a surfeit of political activity, in order that we may choose that governing body.
In between however, we expect to be given some breathing space, so that we may go about leading normal, productive, fulfilling lives.
And focus/concentrate our efforts on things more worthwhile than the antics of just a few individuals whose vocation in life seems to consist mainly of making sure that we keep considering them the most important thing in ours.
Enough is enough, already.