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arthur brogard's avatar

Yep lovely rant about the horrible condition everything is in and the disgusting state of our politicians.

Just one thing: it leans heavily towards the traditional customary habit of 'looking for a leader'.

A saviour. A Superman or a Jesus Christ.

The whole thing pleads for ' a leader'. Of course. That has been the paradigm.

Let me point out that it is not supposed to be the paradigm, though.

We are supposed to be democratic nations wherein the people govern of themselves, for themselves.

See?

Truth is that it simply could never be done in practice. Technology, communications, did not allow for it.

So we got the current pathetic imitation: spasmodic right to vote for one party of the other. End of story.

Given that situation it was/is natural that having cast their vote there was nothing folks could do but sit back and pray that they did the right thing.

The whole thing intrinsically a 'redeemer' philosophy. Pick the right choice from the two available and all will be well. All will be well.

Of course, it never is.

The point, however, is that we should not be looking for 'redeemers' 'saviours', we should be looking to do it ourselves.

And nowadays we can. We have the technology. The opportunity is here:

https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/

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David Janes's avatar

Ah, you missed this today

https://gript.ie/revealed-the-documents-the-state-didnt-want-you-to-see-before-the-referendums/

The Irish government knew (aka designed) the referendum to be a scam to pry open the doors on immigration. They buried FOI requests until after the vote.

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