The Funhouse Hall of Mirrors

In the weird topsy turvy back to front world we live in, I present to you the Funhouse Hall of Mirrors that is our politics and government today. 

In one mirror, a PM uses his age old power as chief executive to suspend the legislature. He is called an "elected dictator" by the court and implicitly a liar and ordered to cease and desist. The court does this while people call for the politician to be hung in the streets. He is excoriated for expelling MPs from his party who voted against him in Parliament. He is openly called a racist by MPs and the Speaker fails to censure them when all know the PM is about as racist as you or me. One of his opponents swears she will never honour the result of a national referendum and calls herself a "Liberal Democrat" while her colleagues cross benches refuse to hold an election on the most crucial issue of the day and their press hail them for "defending democracy". The Speaker who tears up many of those same age old rules is called a hero.

In another, A PM blatantly brazenly and openly covers up a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice, interfere with the courts and meddle with judicial and prosecutorial independence. He shuts down Parliament, the police, his Cabinet, the Ethics and Justice committees and expels his female native justice minister using extreme party discipline and...nothing happens let alone a court order or an independent investigation. Finally, he shows himself to be an Un-PC hypocrite on racism in the Blackface scandal and the polls hardly budge. The only leader in the election in the meantime that talks clearly about the issues is called a racist and marginalized.

In another, a President is found not guilty of foreign collusion or anything like obstruction after 4 years of investigation including a special counsel, the FBI, the CIA and the Justice Department and his political opponent in the election at enormous cost and effort and he is still hounded by the Congress constantly (who already investigated it under his own party before) and now is about to be impeached for simply speaking with a foreign statesman about possibly restarting an investigation into his opponent's son. For trying for almost three years and counting to mount a coup against the President and undo the result of his perfectly fair and legitimate election, they are called "Democrats".

It is apparent that, unlike in the Hall of Mirrors, the image that you see in the mirror, whether long, tall, short, wide, fat or small, depends on who you are not the warp of the mirror's glass. If you are Democrat, Labour or Liberal and you look in the mirror, the image is pristine as presented by the courts, the media or the academia or the "glorious retired" or punditocracy. If you are Conservative or Republican, the image is distorted in the extreme, grotesque, bizarre and deplorable regardless of your merits. Worse, if you are PC, the mirror is clear. If not...