It’s tough to get people to agree; it’s even tougher to get the minority to submit to their opposition.
But this is the nature of democracy – majority rule, over everyone else. We have recently been treated to a rare minority uprising, using a surprise set of tactics, some relating to rules of the game and others just relating to the game itself… and the results have been, for many viewers and participants, nothing less than tragic, horrific even.
Of course, you know exactly what I am talking about. The US House of Representatives and the months-long drama of getting, and replacing, a Speaker!
Dear reader, you may have thought I was going to wade into a certain crisis in the Middle East. Perhaps I would try to wrap this topic around of the US government’s expensive and counterproductive efforts to fight for Ukrainian democracy, until the last Ukrainian dies, or gets a Polish or Lithuanian passport.
read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/karen-kwiatkowski/democracy-shemocracy/
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