The insufferable public plight.

As the country inches towards a holistic default - economic, political, moral, ethical, legal, judicial and constitutional - one might question what brought us to this deplorable juncture. How did a resource-rich and resilient society turn out to be an abode of defaults? Who has hijacked the fate of a nation of 224 million people where taking one's life is much easier than living it? Who has imposed the ruling elite on the fortunes of the country?

The answers to these questions might vary based on different contexts, people, perspectives and interests. But one thing is certain; those running the country for over seven and half decades now are behind the ruthless national ruin. The successive governments, regardless of their nature and composition, framed policies in such a self-serving manner that only brought misery to the populace. In other words, the hybrid ruling elite has been at war against its own people through self-serving policies and corrupt practices. And the public has remained an accomplice to this in the form of chronic compliance to injustice and systematic brutalities. This passivity transformed the people into the subjects of sustainable exploitation. Historically, people have never been as desperate for survival as they are today. The country's daily wage earners and lower and middle-income groups find their existence unbearable. At a time when people fight the war for survival and view taking their lives as a win-win situation, the government is fighting the battle for perpetuation of power and greater riches. As the country's reserves dive to historic lows; those of the elite touch the highs.

For a sane, selfless and compassionate mind, nothing is as painful and scary as listening to the confession of chronically seated leaders of their inability to accord a viable direction to the country and countrymen. Recent acknowledgements and divinely painted statements made by the economic tsar about the country's economic plight are disappointing, at least for the public. This is akin to taking a country's reign with the promises of...

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