There can be no doubt that South Africans, in all our diversity, currently share a unified sense of anger and frustration at the failures of our government. Differ on many things we may, but there is undeniably a growing consensus that this useless and criminal bunch must go.
Agents Provocateurs, foreign funded movements, 'leaders' of questionable mental health, political own-goals, ongoing economic decline, the despair of squandered opportunity, incredulity at new depths of incompetence, and the looting of our state entities have created a parallel universe of madness. We live in perpetual anxiety, not knowing when we will get kicked in the balls next. We are shell-shocked at the sheer audacity of the endless pillaging right under our noses.
Our national aspiration of working together to build a proud and prosperous country is seemingly in ruins. The heady days of Mandela and prospects for a sunny and inclusive future have been willfully derailed, sadly proving the merchants of doom correct in their miserable predictions of impending state failure.
There are so many things to be angry about, but paramount of these must be the abject failure of the government to employ the significant resources, human and fiscal, of our nation for the sustained upliftment of the poor. As the number of marginalised citizens grows, our collective future remains permanently balanced on a knife edge.
We have lost our shared vision. The fact that our historical divisions could so cynically be preyed upon by hired PR mercenaries illustrates just how fragile our national psyche really is. Our national pride shaky, our confidence knocked after being outsourced to the Guptas. We no longer feel part of the journey forward, we are mere passengers on a train hurtling to nowhere.
The cloud of despondency, almost depression, pervading the nation is directly attributable to the sense of utter helplessness we feel in being unable to impact events. It is like farting against thunder, crying out in the wilderness. They do not hear and they do not care.