When the BBC explained the process of the recent Pakistan elections
I was shocked at the lengths to which pork barrel politics,
could be stretched via a public life and an expanding media.
Every candidate had to be rich enough to get into the severest financial debt.
The winner of the election, and anyone they shared office with,
recouped their losses by sharing out the government money pot
through a tax system only Lewis Carroll would understand.
For the rest, their loss was for the gain
of the commercial broadcasting companies.
The firms who gained the most were the bus companies
who were competitively well paid to bus every candidate's supporters
from rally to rally, so that everyone's supporters were televised
cheering the speeches of their candidates in a show of hysteria
for the cameras, the like of which had not been seen
since the last election and will not be seen until the next.
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