CANADA: A Sense of Peril
Sep. 15th, 2019 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineListening to this at the moment while resigning myself to going to work at another minwage-plus-4-percent day job tomorrow morning.
Quoth Dave Meslin:
"What's disrespectful about our voting system is that 60 per cent can vote against a particular party, then that party cannot only win, but win a majority of the seats. In almost every Western democracy in the world, if a single party takes complete control of a legislature against the will of a majority of voters, it's called a coup. And in Canada we call it an election."
I agree and yet Canada is trapped right now between the impulse this belief creates and the knowledge that the new fascist international is a real threat ready to pounce.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/canadians-may-or-may-not-elect-the-government-they-want-1.5282911
Quoth Dave Meslin:
"What's disrespectful about our voting system is that 60 per cent can vote against a particular party, then that party cannot only win, but win a majority of the seats. In almost every Western democracy in the world, if a single party takes complete control of a legislature against the will of a majority of voters, it's called a coup. And in Canada we call it an election."
I agree and yet Canada is trapped right now between the impulse this belief creates and the knowledge that the new fascist international is a real threat ready to pounce.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/canadians-may-or-may-not-elect-the-government-they-want-1.5282911
