Aftermath

It was a Masterstroke by the incumbents. The opposition were lured out into the open and then massacred in a brutal series of ambuscades.

Again it was shown that the delusional rants of the lunatic fringe, on such vagaries and sham concepts as “democracy”, “transparency”, and “human rights”, held no purchase in society.

Again it was shown that the masses yearned only for the bread and circuses of material prosperity and transient comfort and shallow pleasure, and not for the milk and honey of meaning, values, and eternity.

And yet again, the People and the Party, the one deserving the other, the other mastering the one, both begetting each other, found themselves locked in utter symbiosis, so that it was only the mad and the damned who tried to force their way betwixt the two, and who failed miserably in the attempt:

The mad and the damned fancy their chances

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There were of course others, a few of some genuine character and capability who thought to interrupt the show, but the whole show had to go on, and so it did.

But all this took place in the briefest of eye-blinks, for before the week was up, the farce and tragedy of the Island’s neighbours surged to heights anew, with ever more unreal occurrences of societal degeneration, bureaucratic corruption, governmental breakdown, environmental despoliation, and general chaos. Far better the bread and circuses than the blood and psychosis.