As my ever decreasing small cadre of
regular readers will know I no longer write here on a regular basis
having become so disillusioned with world wide 'democracy' that I
have little positive to say. Here in Canada it has not yet reached
the depth of disillusionment that appears to be overtaking the home
of of our democracy, Great Britain, where after several years of
mayhem they have devolved into what appears to be a authoritative
governance where half the population simply do not know which way to
turn to get non dictatorial governance. Here in Canada we seem to
have narrowly escaped a similar outcome the only difference being
that the areas of discontent and threats of 'separation' are of
different sizes and locations. The ability and / or the desire to
seek and embrace middle ground politically here, in GB and elsewhere
across the world seems to be dwindling in what to those of us who
have been around long enough know that such unyielding intransigent
positions rarely lead to any positive outcomes.
The eyes of the world are currently on
the similarly troubling situation just to the south of us as one half
of the population tries to reign in the excesses of the other, as
those led by a leader who thinks he is god supported by a group of
individuals who are either too scared or too dumb to see that their
very democracy is on the line. I submit that if Trumph is cleared of
any wrongdoing, as I suspect he will be supported by his republican
supporters who appear to be either blinded by his twitter storms or
scared to speak out against him for fear that the right wing
supporters may come to see the truth, it will be the beginning of the
end. The end of democracy as practiced in that former British colony
to the south of us and the gradual transformation of it into a
dictatorship or perhaps a more accurate term might be an oligarchy.
Whilst the charge against him may be a seemingly minor infraction it
is the lengths to which he and his supporters have gone to to
withhold any information related to the alleged misconduct that
clearly tells us that something is very wrong and must remain hidden
from pubic view and from the 'jury' of senators.
At the same time as he ranted about
having done nothing wrong and his impeachment was completely
unwarranted (and he and only he is 'perfect) he took time out from
trashing the duly elected democratic leaders to tell us that climate
change is a hoax and attack a young lady and others
who speaks of a truth that few of us want to
hear.
“In a prepared speech at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Trump took the opportunity to take a swipe
at Thunberg—who was in the audience—deriding
“perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the
apocalypse” about the environment. “They are the errors of
yesterday’s fortune-tellers,” Trump claimed, “and we have them
and I have them and they want to see us do badly, but we don’t let
that happen,” adding that in order to “embrace the possibilities
of tomorrow,” we must reject the warnings of such individuals.”
With 'Leaders' like this we are doomed,
its just a matter of which comes first ….. Oligarchy, Insurrection,
War or Famine. I just hope our young folks can find a way to save us
all, for this old fellow cannot.....
