Sadly, many of us are in a state of learned helplessness.
We sincerely believe that the only people who can directly help us or have the means and ability to provide solutions to the problems that affect us personally and as part of our wider community, are the people who we have elected to represent us.
By default, we only see anyone else as being able to influence change based on what they are financially worth; because they have a public platform or are a celebrity; or because they hold or have obtained a role which allows them to do so.
You may well believe that change will come just as soon as the current government is removed from power, and the party that you now support has been elected into office.
Regrettably, however ‘right’ you might feel, or whatever you have until now accepted about the way that everything gets done, the news you need to consider is that at the very least, your views on the political situation could be very wrong.
You may not agree – and that’s perfectly understandable.
However, whatever your beliefs are and whatever your political background or ‘tribe’ might be, there is very little to be gained by engaging in yet another debate about what’s right, what’s wrong and who has the best ideas about the future – that we should all then just accept and adopt.
If you want to live in a world that treats you as well as anyone and does the same for every other person you know, the time has come to realise that policies and public services are no longer something that it is safe for us all to leave to somebody else.
You and I already know this. Because the somebody else’s have been left with that power and responsibility for too long already. They have repaid all of us by going their own way.
Your power, as a member of the community, is your own. It has only ever been on loan and the time has now arrived for you and others like you and I, to take it back.
Adam Tugwell 