Toward a Politburo country?

[myata]

As discussed on a number of occasions, this country is critically missing, in both essence and the letter functional and effective mechanisms of oversight over the executive power and many of its branches and limbs. This has as a natural product, over the decades of development, an obscure, clumsy, over expensive and inefficient bureaucratic system that is strongly challenged to simply incapable of making correct decisions and producing good solutions. At the same time the complexity of problems in the world is growing at accelerating pace. It appears that the trends are on a collision course and there are no mechanisms for meaningful and necessary change.

This can be illustrated by the current federal cabinet, where the results and accomplishments for the Canadians seem to have no influence on the position of certain figures. There's a known word for this style of management, and are we moving, gradually but steadily, and almost certainly, naturally, withing the rules and constraints of the system, to that model?

Military: clearly failed leadership, multiple times. No impact on the leadership position.

Public finance: the strategy is out of balance and based entirely on massive public spending. No clear parameters and framework for recovery under endemic Covid has been formulated and hopes for a quick exit from the pandemic and fast recovery are diminishing. No impact on the leadership position.

Public health and epidemics management: failed leadership bordering on incompetence ("travel from Wuhan"). Volatile, incoherent and contradictory hand management. Problems in many areas. No impact on the leadership position.

Edited August 27, 2021 by myata

[Queenmandy85]

If you can do better, don't complain, act.

First thing you have to do is build a war chest, join the Liberal Party in a Liberal riding, and build a network for support. I recommend the Grits because they are usually the party that forms a government.

Find a great, not good, but great, campaign manager. Then work your butt off for the next 10 years to get elected and start exploring leadership paths.

You also need to work on your communications skill in both official languages. You seem to have a poor grasp on coherence in English.

The alternative is to whine and complain online to people who don't care.

Edited August 27, 2021 by Queenmandy85

[myata]

By that notion, if / while drowning in muck one has to act (no forget swimming to the nearest shore), get better at drowning, get a campaign manager join the party and so on? That surely will make much difference to the outcome.

[Winston]

5 hours ago, myata said:

As discussed on a number of occasions

Military: 

Public finance: 

Public health and epidemics management: 

I agree with the post. But there are also no solutions yet. What type of solutions would you propose?

Systems like the government, public finance, public health, medical industry and the military, strongly resist change, especially if the change results in higher individual risk and lower private gains. 

There is a reason why the working class left established countries for north America. Some times building a new country is better than trying to change the current one. 

[Queenmandy85]

35 minutes ago, myata said:

By that notion, if / while drowning in muck one has to act (no forget swimming to the nearest shore), get better at drowning, get a campaign manager join the party and so on? That surely will make much difference to the outcome.

Then, please continue whining and complaining to us. Don't be discouraged because nobody really gives a heck.

PS. Do you proof read / edit what you write?

[myata]

Why do you insist projecting your emotions on those around? Who told you that someone is "discouraged" here? I only observe what can be seen in plain sight quite obviously, and gives someone a heck or no will be ultimately, their problem(s).

[myata]

1 hour ago, Winston said:

I agree with the post. But there are also no solutions yet. What type of solutions would you propose?

Who promised us that every problem will have a solution? Certainly not all dinosaurs found solutions to their problems. Some did though but it took a lot of jumping or running or swimming etc. One thing we should know though: if a problem is becoming more and more apparent, doing nothing will do very little to solve it. Nothing flows beneath bureaucratic bum firmly stuck to the governing chair.

[myata]

But maybe it's an exaggeration? Let's see. World news agencies report today the news of first fatality attributed to a complication from vaccination (Phizer vaccine). BBC, Deutsche Welle, Reuters, Bloomberg, Australia, Ireland obviously, New Zealand, etc. 

Now try to find it in the information sources (knock-knock) in Canada. I checked CBC and Global, no luck so far. So does the country even have independent media, or every potentially controversial news has to be approved by Politburo?

And no, not the first such episode, recall reporting" on side effects of Astra-Zeneca with a week's delay. For a news service respecting itself it could be a huge stain on the reputation. But like, who cares here?

[Queenmandy85]

Which vaccine did you get? Did you suffer any serious side effects? No? 

[myata]

Right, right, the Politburo always knows best. And for a decoration, look are these pretty ribbons tied in the pretty garden around, "democracy", "elections", "independent media", "freedoms". Life is good!

[Queenmandy85]

21 minutes ago, myata said:

Right, right, the Politburo always knows best. And for a decoration, look are these pretty ribbons tied in the pretty garden around, "democracy", "elections", "independent media", "freedoms". Life is good!

English translation please.

[myata]

"See no evil hear no evil speak no evil" == life is good, forever! Always and forever? Sorry, no such guarantees.

[Queenmandy85]

9 minutes ago, myata said:

"See no evil hear no evil speak no evil" == life is good, forever! Always and forever? Sorry, no such guarantees.

Please take pity on me. I'm old. Could you say exactly what you mean rather than beating around the bush. I think you want some department to be looking over the shoulder of politicians and out of hundreds of millions of people who have been vaccinated in the world, somebody died. Your posts bury whatever meaning you are trying to communicate in meaningless verbiage. Please use plain English.

[myata]

Housing crisis; post-secondary tuition crisis; debt crisis; permanent healthcare crisis; and now, Covid crisis.

Not a problem, Politburo knows best! So stick your head firmly in the sand and enjoy life... till it kicks you in the bum. Like there's any other option. Like there has been.

[Galloway]

On 8/27/2021 at 5:37 AM, myata said:

As discussed on a number of occasions, this country is critically missing, in both essence and the letter functional and effective mechanisms of oversight over the executive power and many of its branches and limbs. This has as a natural product, over the decades of development, an obscure, clumsy, over expensive and inefficient bureaucratic system that is strongly challenged to simply incapable of making correct decisions and producing good solutions. At the same time the complexity of problems in the world is growing at accelerating pace. It appears that the trends are on a collision course and there are no mechanisms for meaningful and necessary change.

This can be illustrated by the current federal cabinet, where the results and accomplishments for the Canadians seem to have no influence on the position of certain figures. There's a known word for this style of management, and are we moving, gradually but steadily, and almost certainly, naturally, withing the rules and constraints of the system, to that model?

Military: clearly failed leadership, multiple times. No impact on the leadership position.

Public finance: the strategy is out of balance and based entirely on massive public spending. No clear parameters and framework for recovery under endemic Covid has been formulated and hopes for a quick exit from the pandemic and fast recovery are diminishing. No impact on the leadership position.

Public health and epidemics management: failed leadership bordering on incompetence ("travel from Wuhan"). Volatile, incoherent and contradictory hand management. Problems in many areas. No impact on the leadership position.

For all that, Canada is the most educated country in the world according to the OECD, and the number one country in the world overall according to USNews.   Things seem to be working out darn well for us so far, let's be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

[myata]

8 hours ago, Galloway said:

Things seem to be working out darn well for us so far, let's be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

"Darn well" includes housing crisis; post-secondary tuition crisis; permanent public health care crisis; debt crisis; competition and innovation crisis; and most recently, Covid crisis? Just when ignoring and swiping under the rug obvious problems was a winning strategy?