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Good politics is the art of getting re-elected after reforms (apologies to a former US president). Really, there is no comparison between politics and any other vocation. Politics is not just tough, it's impossibly tough.
Short term costs can be so enormous, and benefits so long term that your rival is more likely to reap them.
Even if the costs are imposed by anarchists, violent mobs, sold or biased media, a small minority of those middlemen effected by the reforms. Even if the costs are optical, and the violence real.
Politics can never ignore the political costs and neither can it ignore the optics of the violent minority. https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
Even if labour reforms can help 95% of the informal workforce, you can be sure that the 1% of the 5% formal workers will create enormous violence and protest.
Don't be surprised if these 1% are the most inefficient workers, who will be threatened by the influx of the competent entrants from the informal segment. Be even less surprised by the non implementation of labour reforms for decades.
We all need to accept with humility the politician's dilemma - it is always a tough job. It may disappoint us, but reforms will be tough because our collective conduct does not merit growth and prosperity. We don't deserve putting poverty in the dustbin, where it belongs - yet.
We are all guilty in our small ways - not being sufficiently coherent, not being loud, not being able to outrage over the outrageous conduct of the loonies and the anarchists and the self-interested. We don't deserve national prosperity till we are louder than the loonies.
This is the way ~The Mandalorian
