Good politicians everywhere are earning their keep with the decisions they have to constantly take and the burdens of life or death through neglect and negligence resting on their shoulders. For this they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Of course they do no real work. That is done by field staff and the bureaucrats to whom those staff report. But sometimes, equally hard can be sifting through the information they receive, filtering out bias and sycophancy which in India is a fine art and making trade offs in most situations. Vested interests are always around attempting to skew their decisions. In Goa most of the politicians, in power and out of it, are sheer reprobates. I don’t think good decisions ever enter their minds, in these difficult times they are probably working out more ways than usual on how to accumulate filthy lucre, knowing such easy pickings may not return any time soon. And the people, like sheep as always, will only focus on the crumbs they are thrown. Roland. Toronto.
