‽istis
reclaims the view through the Overton Window (weekending 14th
December 2019)
‽istis, still tired from the late
night ‘watch’ over the workings of democracy; from the channel- and station-surfing
from pundit to pundit, graphic to graphic, cliché to overworked metaphor; from superlative
to hyperbole and every position spun between; from the triumphant acclamation
to deflated resignation – and peered at the view through the Overton Window[i]…
‽ perhaps, as if by
magic, the wisdom of the crowds/small groups (delate as appropriate when the turnout
figures are known) - well at least those that had made it through the rain – had
cleaned the raindrops, the smears and the dirt to give a view of the road
ahead?
‽ possibly, even now the
radical and unthinkable that lay behind the window (lurking in the corners of
the room obscured by questions evaded, unlit by the light of interviews avoided,
hidden behind numbers untested and assertions that seemed to gain veracity
through the sheer volume of their proclamation and repetition) was being
planned and plotted: the path from idea, to policy, to practice, to impact?
‽ maybe ‘the system’
had once again grounded itself on the sandbanks of the not-so-Good’win’ mathematics…
And perhaps, possibly, maybe it was time to rethink
the two-swords length adversarial architecture of a crumbling edifice; to
review the all-permissive power of a mandate that could be claimed from no more
than 50%+1; to consider all representatives as ‘the government’ acting on
behalf of everyone through consensus and co-operation; to take the best ideas,
more evidence-based than ideological; and to require the elected to swear to be
faithful and bear allegiance to those who have entrusted their futures to them
- well at least until the next time that the Overton Window is opened.
© Pistis
[i] https://www.mackinac.org/OvertonWindow
