DULL & DULLER

 

Dull & Duller

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Grocery shopping can be a boring but necessary chore. You gotta eat! So off you go to to buy some bread and milk, but instead you end up strolling up and down the aisles hoping for an occasional bargain. You are unaware of the ‘elevator music’ playing in the background to help make your ‘shopping experience’ as relaxing as possible. The products at eyelevel are the most popular because, em, they’re at eyelevel. Items on sale are simply subsidised by a cyclical raising and lowering the prices on other items.

In Australia we have two major grocery stores, Woolworths and Coles. Sure, there’re other supermarkets, such as Aldi and IGA. However, these, like Ma and Pa corner grocery stores, don’t have the regular selection of items sold in Coles and Woolies.

Like Coles and Woolies, we have another duopoly in Australia, the Labor Party and the Coalition Party. We are being forced to (yeah, fined if we don’t!) vote for either party in the political duopoly. Sure, like the supermarkets, with Aldi, IGA, et al, there’re independents and candidates from minor parties. However, when we visit the polling booth on Saturday 3^rd May, 2025, it will be to be involved in the election of one member of the duopoly/

Some prefer Coles for their meat products and other prefer Woolworths for their vegies, (or is it the other way round?). Anyway, both are essentially selling the same stuff. Indeed, we refer to the Liberal/National Coalition Party as ‘Labor-lite’. Net-Zero being the main sale item that the duopoly is trying to sell us. This is the eyelevel elephant in the room that fewer voters are buying. Should we buy our green lightbulbs from Labor or Labor-lite?

I watched one of the debates between the two candidates from the duopoly: Dull and Duller! A trip to the supermarket would’ve been more exciting!

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When I vote in our Australian General Election, I will be looking for a local candidate who I think best lines up with what the Scriptures have to say about governments and government leaders, i.e., God’s ministers to us for good (Rom. 13:4). Do any of these candidates even read the Bible? Do they know what is good and what is evil so that they can promote the former and deter the latter? Do they even know that they are God’s ministers? Do they favour Marx over Jesus? Are they more into wealth redistribution (Socialism) than small government and fewer taxes (Christianity)? Do they know that God’s 8^th Commandment applies to governments as much as individuals? “You shall not steal” (Exod. 20:15).

I recommend that they pipe-in some soothing elevator music to help the voter relax as we walk down the aisle to cast our votes at the checkout, sorry, voting booth. 

Yes, we all know that whoever we vote for will have a direct effect on how much we pay at the grocery checkout; power bills; petrol; rates; taxes and all the rest.