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Recently my Canadian government sent me a small card asking me my thoughts on Democracy.
I believe they want to reform the voting system in Canada. A good thing if they intend to implement proportional representation which was an idea created years ago by the New Democratic Party of Canada and which was intended to better represent the popular vote and give a better representation to provinces with large populations.
Today, December 12, 2016, I don't feel very democratic. The new president of the United States is one Donald Trump, a multi-millionaire and a good friend to the rich. His policies will benefit the rich at the expense of the poor and the simi-illiterate. The same people who put him in power will soon feel the negative effects of his old Republican social policies. In other words the poor and lower middle class have been treated like suckers!
Many of his thoughts and words during the election campaign terrified the civilized elites while simultaneously creating joy among the ranks of racists and ultra-nationalists. However, it worked and Trump is now the new U.S. president. His friends in the Oil patch are ecstatic and global warming be hanged! Science will now take a back seat to profit until the natural disasters force Trump to reconsider his policies. By then it will be much too late to reverse the negative effects on our planet.
The only Democracy I care about is humanitarian Democracy based on preserving the ecology and Bio-Diversity of life on planet Earth...including human life.
Imperial capitalism is the system now in full use around the world, including countries like China and Russia. Money is brutalizing and raping Nature. Until that stops, I will not have much faith in our so called Democracy.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
P.S. Canada`s young prime minister Justin Trudeau needs a better understanding of global warming and climate change. The world needs to shift away from fossil fuels once and for all!
Recently my Canadian government sent me a small card asking me my thoughts on Democracy.
I believe they want to reform the voting system in Canada. A good thing if they intend to implement proportional representation which was an idea created years ago by the New Democratic Party of Canada and which was intended to better represent the popular vote and give a better representation to provinces with large populations.
Today, December 12, 2016, I don't feel very democratic. The new president of the United States is one Donald Trump, a multi-millionaire and a good friend to the rich. His policies will benefit the rich at the expense of the poor and the simi-illiterate. The same people who put him in power will soon feel the negative effects of his old Republican social policies. In other words the poor and lower middle class have been treated like suckers!
Many of his thoughts and words during the election campaign terrified the civilized elites while simultaneously creating joy among the ranks of racists and ultra-nationalists. However, it worked and Trump is now the new U.S. president. His friends in the Oil patch are ecstatic and global warming be hanged! Science will now take a back seat to profit until the natural disasters force Trump to reconsider his policies. By then it will be much too late to reverse the negative effects on our planet.
The only Democracy I care about is humanitarian Democracy based on preserving the ecology and Bio-Diversity of life on planet Earth...including human life.
Imperial capitalism is the system now in full use around the world, including countries like China and Russia. Money is brutalizing and raping Nature. Until that stops, I will not have much faith in our so called Democracy.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.
P.S. Canada`s young prime minister Justin Trudeau needs a better understanding of global warming and climate change. The world needs to shift away from fossil fuels once and for all!
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