{"id":50,"date":"2012-10-08T20:15:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-10-09T09:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T22:38:07","slug":"the-blood-on-the-floor-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/the-blood-on-the-floor-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blood on the Floor is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Anne Rouen, I take no interest, whatsoever, in modern politics. Now, if it were historical … However, as an Australian citizen, I find the current penchant for trashing the character of political rivals truly appalling. As an observer of history, I am impartial. Offenders are equally guilty, no matter which standard they rally behind.<\/p>\n

Do we pay these people immense salaries to comport themselves like spiteful children when there are, literally, world shattering issues to consider? Quite frankly, it is a spectacle that nauseates me.<\/p>\n

A person’s character is his\/her most precious commodity; their very essence; all that they are, or have the potential to be – the whole man or woman. Therefore, to assassinate the character …<\/p>\n

Should we look on without protest while others systematically and determinedly destroy that person with no other desire than to remove a rival from the political scene? Is that not our job at the ballot box? I, for one, find it a despicable method of reducing the field.<\/p>\n

Our pollies talk a lot about blood on the floor. Metaphorically, thank goodness, but it is the same intent to destroy. Back in my time, the blood on the floor was real, pumping from a dying body. If, as we believe, my ancestors were Huguenots – French Protestants – then they knew all about it. The trouble with history is that, now and again, it has a tendency to repeat.<\/p>\n

We need to be sure that parliamentary debate is healthy, about pertinent topics that enhance the lives of the citizens of this country; that question time is not a metaphorical Coliseum with the loser thrown to ravening lions; or a mud-slinging contest with the victim drowning in slime.<\/p>\n

Wasting our time and abusing our intellects with this type of smear campaign is unconscionable when our economy needs the greatest bi-partisan care and attention to survive.<\/p>\n

Wake up, Pollies! The masses are more intelligent than you give us credit for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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