Emotional Analogy

In a sense it was like watching a NRL grand 

final, say Bulldogs versus Rabbitos - not for 

the game of course, politic’s no sport nor its 

players more heroic than th’ chaff dispersed 

after a rubbish bag burst. I thought I saw an 

emotional analogy in ways victors & losers 

displayed their temperament, all that stuff of 

poseurs & pique combined into resignation 

So, ideas State elections must impose the 

same melodrama as a grand final’s context 

in the sporting arena has a way to go; - yet 

Victoria kicked out the Coalition - voted in a 

Labor government after only one term; and 

what does it say for the ‘game’ they play 

My best guess is the voters don’t care for a 

long-term argument of what’s entertaining - 

grand finals represent a season’s end, glory 

and strategy are thence theatrically rested; 

it moots making politicians accountable for 

doing their job - not playing that game 

© 2 December 2014. I. D. Carswell