Bridge in Troubled Waters

[Scallywag]

4 hours ago, Army Guy said:

If the independents become the majority in government , who becomes PM, Ministers, speaker of the house.

Millions of Canadians elect one MP per riding in a short time. That couple of hundred MPs would have the wherewithal to quickly select various members for various tasks. The selection could change at any time. There is no need to form a government – one has already been elected – or turn it into a team sport.

Maps would be redrawn regularly based on specific criteria with every person recognized as equal. That is not a task for politicians to ponder, that is a straight up accounting function. That’s a job for audited data.

When power and a large number of people are involved, ritual is soon to follow. That prescribed order brings familiarity, comfort and control to some at the exclusion of others. As the country has grown and moved about, our political rituals are no longer suitable for Canada. Rituals are being questioned in institutions across the globe. We are not who we were, we are the product of our past, not members of it. Whether we agree with the questioning of ritual or not, it is going to happen; it’s evolution. If enough Canadians still detect political residue from the divine right of kings and town criers than they must be heard as well. Not listening would be far more damaging than listening.

Edited July 31, 2021 by Scallywag

[PIK]

On 7/28/2021 at 7:40 PM, Army Guy said:

The majority of Canadians do not see it that way, they see dollars going into their pockets and like it, regardless of what it does to the country... Unless there is a miracle Justin and his merry band of crooks will get back in, or so says the polls... O Toole is he really up for the job, i mean there is a lot to fix... has anyone heard his plan yet, all I've heard is them blasting Justin everyday on Cpac. he has yet to offer any real solutions... 

Keeling the powder dry till a election or the libs will take it as their own. He has to campaign from the left to sin, then govern from the centre right. He doesn't make good optics when the media wants you to lose.

[myata]

It's not about what but who and how. We have no agent of meaningful change and no mechanisms to make it happen. This is more of a problem (way more) than any issues with designing what to do.

Fat and lazy figureheads dancing to the party muzak (and rewarded for it obscenely out of public's pocket) are not interested in any change, it's working the greatest for them as is with automatic annual % on % raises and any real change of the status quo would be anathema to them. Dancing into midnight....

Edited August 8, 2021 by myata