Sunday, February 20, 2022

Well, Imagine That!

Canada police fenced off Parliament precinct to ensure protestors do not return (Photo Credit: Reuters)

Of two basic systems of government 

the universal human response in assessing

the favoured of the two is always heavily 

on the side of personal freedoms and respect

for lawful justice which leaves dictatorships 

at the bottom of the garbage heap of politics

democracies soaring to the top unblemished 

by the propensity of tyrants to manipulate 

humanity to their unsavoury ends in a

power structure benefiting only the tyrant. 

Wait: each may have something in common 

after all. Whenever things go wrong as they 

invariably do in any system of government 

the dictators warn of foreign influences 

appealing to the nationalist in even the 

downtrodden. Seems now that democracies 

are not themselves above the convenient

use of the very same ploy in eschewing

responsibility while gathering their voters

in a show of national support when their 

leaders fail, then warn of the implications

of foreign interference. Do they wink at one

another while directing the choreography

of national outrage so useful as a cover for

ineptly outrageous betrayals of democracy

on the one hand and virulent displays of

human rights violations on the other...?


 

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