In terms of the government, it does feel more like just, "change" or even "change for change's sake".
Everything's labelled as a reform these days and there have been so many reforms over the last few years, some good, some bad, some utterly pointless, that the dictionary definition and its positive meaning has been lost in the noise. As one I. Montoya put it, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
"Government Reform" to me just means wasting huge amounts of cash for no noticeable change other than to appear different from the last lot, even if the net result to the man in the street is exactly the same as it ever was.
Maybe that's why they're picking on "Electoral Reform", it's a change that might actually do something!
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andrewducker) wrote2011-02-09 03:54 pm
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Everything's labelled as a reform these days and there have been so many reforms over the last few years, some good, some bad, some utterly pointless, that the dictionary definition and its positive meaning has been lost in the noise. As one I. Montoya put it, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
"Government Reform" to me just means wasting huge amounts of cash for no noticeable change other than to appear different from the last lot, even if the net result to the man in the street is exactly the same as it ever was.
Maybe that's why they're picking on "Electoral Reform", it's a change that might actually do something!
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Hah. A blessing in disguise, perhaps, not being tarred with a word that no longer means what it says on the tin?