I guess that ‘they’ doesn’t include ‘we’ or ‘you’, but in a sense it does include all of us because it is a very rare, unique super-honourable person who does not sometimes colour or limit the truth to fit their version of the truth. I intend to let that sit in the background of my discussion and I am assuming a good share of understanding and honesty as I proceed! Most people are liars, and most of us convince ourselves that our degree of lying is tolerable and justifiable – often not so our assessment of others!
I am coloured, although most people see me as white. At least where the sun shines on my skin in the winter I am a light shade of brown; in the summer I am ‘browner’ to very brown. As you can see looking into my eyes – taken mid-winter, not photoshopped!
Nevertheless I am seen as a white supremacist! I’m not sure over what I am seen as ‘supreme’. Maybe I’m being a bit facetious, it seems to me that as I am not First Nation (although both my parents were Australian citizens) I am not classified as coloured (although as I have explained, I am! I don’t think of myself as a Scandinavian or ‘peaches and cream’ Pommy – a ghostly white person). I am not a female or one of the deviant groups. I am neither green, woke, NAZI or extreme right or left wing politically (although I do see some truth in some of their thinking. I’m not sure about any good in ‘woke’) – and thus I am not worth being considered as anything but a mere waste of space! Except as a taxable item!
I refer back to my opening paragraph. Politically there is a rare bird called an ‘honest politician’. Sadly because of party politics a truly honest politician rarely gets a chance to be heard. They are forced to follow the party line, a line which is drawn very close to a desire of winning the next election.
The Bible talks about shepherds (I presume leaders) and sheep (I presume the masses). Using religious terms transferred to politics, I presume that the various levels of government are in a significant way the ‘shepherds’. Looking at recently changed laws I ask – “How many, presumably intelligent politicians, can’t tell the difference between a male and a female?” I will follow on my thought pattern in my next ‘heatedstew’ edition.
Dominic Cartier.
Heated Stew 
My grandfather was considered to be an honest local politician in the US state of Washington. I suppose that was based on the fact that, during the Depression, he fed many (without charge) from his general store.
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Peggy there are some good politicians. Good on your grandfather for doing what he did. Party politics in Australia waters down solitary good peoples input, and sadly I am concerned at many of the decisions which are made to get the small increase in votes to keep people in power. I am concerned about America with Biden, I am concerned about Australia with Albo. And my article was because I think education these days is training people NOT to think but follow patterns. Thanks for commenting!
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I’m concerned too.
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