Damaged Democracy:

If someone asked me to explain Democracy in a single sentence I would reply; I did something nice, now vote for me. Knowing irony is lost on Africa I'll tell you a tale and believe me it's true. Rural roads traditionally are unserviced, stripped dirt surfaces renowned for keeping your vehicle dirty and enabling the stupidity of weekend off-road dirt bike muppets. In my tenure residence that road I use daily has been serviced by the municipal council twice. Once at my formal request to turn the inaccessible bicycle track into a two lane motorway and now recently with self motivation of the council as showmen work to garner favour ahead of the general elections. Great, sort of. The political strategy is fix the least critical fault with the most visual asthetic then hype the success of these acts to frenzy the voting public into voting for you, promising more to come which never does once the votes are in. Intelligent voters see through this ruse and demand immediate resolve for the most critical faults, in this instant the failing electrical substation in my community that despite the municipal council advising the assholes at Eskom not to force load shedding on this section of their grid as the node cannot handle frequent outrage without risking failure. Eskom heard "do it!" and I sit without power for 12 hours at the time of writing this post because the node failed. Thanks Eskom, you idiots. In a quagmire we sit; repaired roads are great but repaired electrical supply is better. This is a repeat incident, the power supply distribution, so all parties concerned are aware of the ongoing issues. Having registered to vote for the first time in South Africa I jokingly posted on social media at just how bad things must be in country when I decide to vote, me being an advocate for anarchy and chaos. I never felt inclined to vote because I was content with state of the nation but now; completely fucked doesn't begin to describe it. In the last few years the general attitude of people has changed to "I don't care, that's ignorant and I'll do what I want," but living according to anything goes and the rules don't matter exceeds anarchy and chaos to leave everyone on the downward spiral to inevitable zero. We can come back from that if attitudes change though secretly I'm hoping Elon Musk sends half of Earth's population to Mars.