audio version at the bottom of the page.
Colorful birds flit through the trees singing sweetly, children play happily in the meadows, the sun shines throughout the day and we all live in wonderful democracies which we must diligently protect from evil and harm yeah right.
Many countries claim to follow democratic principles. Yet while claiming to act for their people, the results of so many political decisions have the opposite effect from what you would expect a democracy to provide. Why is this so? Perhaps the rats have found the way into the cheese cabinet despite all the devices designed to prevent this happening.
Here in canada, without jagmeet singh’s support of the self-absorbed son of fidel, we would have had a chance of recovery after justin’s first failed attempt at leadership. Lately the deficit of 60 billion on top of what we already owe in a huge country brimming with natural resources, is yet more proof of the graft and incompetence of a “party” gone rogue, under a leader so delusional that he really believes nearly everyone else in the country is the problem and his own foolish decisions are never considered as even a factor in the equation. The recent reshuffle of his cabinet as an attempt to deflect from his own failings is yet more evidence. He needs to man-up and admit his inability to put the interests of the country and the liberal party ahead of his own and resign in disgrace, but obviously this will not happen without some sort of “the heavens opened, it thundered” epiphany.
Watching jagmeet , the leader of the ndp run to the camera, singing from a different song sheet altogether, suddenly calling for the resignation of the man he supported when it served his own political interests, is like watching one of those reality shows where the girl is all cuddly and sweet until she sees her chance to vote her “pal” friend” and “besty” off the island and advance herself. Not sad, really, or at all unexpected. Just pathetic.
best buds… for awhile anyway…
Our political systems in both north american countries severely need a nuke and pave along the lines of the swiss system. A direct democracy with 7 leaders instead of one, taking turns at being the spokesperson, with all issues involving the public being voted upon.
This would be so easy to implement. You get an email every 3 months and vote on every issue affecting the country, or if you don’t care, you abstain. do you want a nuclear power plant? Do you want more immigration? Do you want publicly funded gaaay parades? Yes___ No___ . Or perhaps you would care for some world war 3? Yes__ No ___
Wouldn’t that be neat? But instead we have this absurd situation where we supposedly elect a single cabbage to run the country for 4. long. tedious. years. who makes all the decisions and forces the representatives to vote the way he commands, in effect turning the alleged democracy into a de facto dictatorship.
Whether Justin is a self-entitled trust-fund baby who never had to drive a single nail into a board until he was the prime minister of canada and needed to look like a working man for the camera, or not, is really not the issue here. We have a political system which was carefully designed to overcome the problem of a dictatorial rule by one individual, but which has been corrupted and highjacked to achieve the exact reverse of the orignal intention. This is true, btw, for many other countries and not just canada. In fact, globally now, we have individuals wanting absolute power over the entire globe, and they are making great progress towards that end. There are those who see human beings, who were designed in the image of GOD, as little more than rats to be exterminated so their resources can be extracted in the name of saving the blue golf ball hanging over nothing, which we are all riding boldly into the unknown.
The trud, as he is affectionately called in some circles, spent over 200,000 on meals on a six day trip recently and has the gumption to whine publicly about struggling “ordinary” canadians, but this is just a symptom of the problem. The next leader of the country will perhaps do things better, which won’t be at all difficult, but the real solution is to be found in a new system entirely, one which is forced to live in a state of ever-changing reality. We should use the successful swiss system as the model and get the process started immediately. Sooner than now would be even better.
As kevin o’leary put it so eloquently : you are destroying canada! JUST. GO!!!!
When he does finally shuffle himself out of office, however, if we do not adopt a new system entirely, the same weaknesses are bound to be exploited by those with the resources to do so yet again. And again.
(audio takes a minute to load)
Skulltripper 