Dangerous tribalism resurrected - The possibility of an election

AS the last few days have underlined, it is far easier to criticise politics than it is to participate in that circular, often degrading melee. 

It is far easier to offer an opinion, however irrational, than it is to sacrifice the huge slice of a life needed to bring positive social change.

Despite that acknowledgment, the practice of politics on this island, in these islands, and in Europe and America has become so unsettling that many of those sane, positive, and good-hearted people who might have a valuable contribution to make now look elsewhere, wondering what vacuous evasion dressed up as policy or power grab disguised as principle comes next. The tribal knock-and-drags that animate politics are dangerous, probably far more dangerous than we can immediately imagine.