OPINION — There is a powerful force that affects politics as much as it affects individual lives. It is fatigue.
We just get darn tired of something, be it a job, a relationship, a hobby or a routine. We have been devoted to it for years, and suddenly we want out. We want to do something else. What we loved doing has become boring and tedious. More work than fun.
A kind of national fatigue played a role in the collapse of the Soviet Union: People were tired of the system and its oppressiveness. Likewise, South Africa.
