Giving and Getting…fair share

One of the daily rags reported that when invited to share his top priorities when he becomes the Opposition Leader (LOO), Sanction Man said, “To hold the Government accountable and to ensure the people of this country get their fair share.” Well, right now, he’s cooling his heels waiting to get the nod to play that LOO role!! Hopefully having learnt the lesson that Parliament’s got rules – success depends on how well you play within those rules to push your party’s interests!! Right now, the very experienced PPP – with a top-notch operator at the helm – is ensuring that the next sitting of the National Assembly ain’t gonna be before the hearing in front of a Magistrate where Sanction Man and Daddy face charges of holding back BILLIONS AND BILLIONS in taxes that would’ve gone into the Treasury!!
And that kinda completes a circle, don’t it? – Sanction Man’s position on the question of “fair share”?? Now we know that in the wave of populism sweeping the world, as a practised practitioner, Sanction Man ain’t given to no long exegeses on theories of “distributive justice”!! Like, for instance, Karl Marx’s “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”  And conversely, his Scrapehead followers – snagged mostly from the PNC – don’t expect no long, drawn-out dissertation!! No Siree Bob!! They just go by the leader – here Sanction Man – assuring them they’ll get their “fair share”, like mana from heaven – or, as they’ve been courted for years, getting it from Sanction Man’s ill-gotten gains!!
And that’s the rub, innit? Here it is – the Scrapes went absolutely bananas when Sanction Man showed up in his Lambo – for which he didn’t pay hundreds of millions in taxes!! He’s declaring that he’s enjoying his “fair share” snagged by bilking the Government – and by implication so should they!! Your Eyewitness figures that the PPP Govt thinks if Sanction Man and his daddy are charged for tax evasion at such gargantuan scales, his Scrapes might look at him going forward somewhat askance!!
They have another think coming!! The Scrapes mentality see “fair share” as beating the “system” – never mind that their party WIN is now part of the same system!! And that’s the greatest danger posed by Sanction Man to our system of Government – by his (cheating) actions for which he’s been sanctioned by the US, he’s not only normalising grand theft but legitimising it!! That’s not to say that some in the PPP/C Government ain’t corrupt – but they legitimise the norm of doing the right thing when they try to hide their corrupt activities.
Sanction Man and his ilk are actually boasting they’ve ripped off the system!!  Can’t work!!

…a leftist leader
Well, Mamdani did what the smart money insisted couldn’t be done: beating the rightward drift of American politics that’s made “liberal” into a four-letter word!! But we better not start generalising too quickly and forget he’s been elected as mayor of New York City!! And with just one-third of its 5.3 million registered voters turning out – yet being the highest turnout since 1969!! What it means is Mamdani beat a sex-offender ex-governor of New York state by galvanising a demographic that had been turned off by the old guard!!
And that demographic is NYC youths!! They were turned on by the anti-establishment stances of Mamdani – especially on Palestine and Israel!! Now these are hot issues in NYC – which is seen as a foreign country even by folks across the Hudson River in upstate NY!! He also promised to go after the billionaires in their Upper East Side penthouses – but as they say, will it play in Peoria??
After all, it’s Peoria that controls the critical Federal purse strings!!

…misogyny
Latin men’s infamous machismo gives short shrift to women’s demands to be treated with respect. But the report that President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico was groped by one lecher in the streets proves we’ve got a long way to go!!