Excellent posts..
We can only make judgements based on information we are given from various quarters
And there's the rub, the word.."given". Apart from a few honorable exceptions few politicians (often aka Union rep) are ever going to "give" the electorate anything other than what they think the electorate need to hear, in order to get themselves re-elected....we're all educated adults, we all know that we should always be questioning the information our politicians give us, don't we?
Things are going in a different direction. You can't change the past. But you have to hope the future is better
I truely hope you are right...