Unprofessional Politicians

Remember how people were always complaining how what was wrong with modern politics was that it was full of 'professional politicians; who had made politics their career and how everything would be better if only we could get some non-politicians (preferably multi-millionaire businessmen) into power?  Well, now that we seem to have 'unprofessional politicians' in power in many countries, I'd just like to ask them how they think it's all going. I mean, do they honestly think that Trump's presidency (to take the obvious example) actually represents an improvement?  Scarily, plenty of people do seem to think that having someone who behaves like a petulant child in the White House is a good thing.  To digress slightly, I'm amazed at the free ride Trump gets in many quarters - despite his continued complaints of bias against him, I've found no end of apologists for him out there.  Many of them aren't even Trump supporters, as such, but instead seem to be professional contrarians who, because mainstream opinion is that Trump is an arse, will start making excuses for him.  There are plenty of them rushing to sign up to his cranky claims of a liberal media conspiracy against him, simply because they don't like the mainstream media or politicians.  Trust me, the enemy of your enemy is most certainly not your friend.  They are still your enemy.  The probe into potential Russian interference in the last Presidential election is not a 'witch hunt' orchestrated by disgruntled liberals - serious allegations of electoral irregularities involving foreign powers have to be investigated, even if simply to exonerate Trump and validate the electoral process which put him in the White House.  Nobody is saying that he personally was involved or instigated the alleged interference, but it still has to be investigated.  That's how free and democratic systems work.

But, we've digressed.  Getting back to the wider issue of 'unprofessional politicians', how about that fucking lunatic in the Philippines, who legitimises and institutionalises murder/  Hell, who needs due process, evidence, trial by jury or any of that nonsense when you can just shoot alleged drug dealers on sight?  Sadly, there are plenty of morons out there who do seem to believe this sort of shit.  Then there's that bunch of clowns currently holding the reins of power in Italy: the Five Star movement.  Actually, you could argue that they are quite literally clowns as they were founded by self-styled comedian Beppe Grillo.  Now, I know that humour is notoriously difficult to translate, but I have to say that what I've seen of his act is utter shit.  So it should come as no surprise that, in power, the movement he created have revealed themselves as being utterly incompetent. But here in the UK, we too have our fair share of these 'unprofessional politicians', who claim to be anti-establishment whilst actually being part of the elites they supposedly despise, from crypto-fascists like Nigel Farage to charlatans like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg.  They want to be seen as 'anti-politics', peddling 'populist' policies like Brexit, which will supposedly remedy all of our political and economic ills while actually pursuing their own agendas of permanently shifting the balance of power back to the super wealthy by undermining and destroying existing political structures a institutions.  But the mainstream politicians are no better with our two main parties led by figures with no concept of leadership, who believe that if they just do nothing, then everything will work itself out.  No wonder we're in such a fucking mess.