We have come to the place where you cannot believe either what you see on the Internet or what you are being told you are seeing. It has gone way beyond the jokey singing penis of the mid-1990s. Now you can see real people doing unreal things, real things transposed in time and place to…
Tag: democracy
The World Waits
Putin wants the whole of the Soviet empire back. Iran wants the whole of Israel gone. Trump thinks money can be the deal maker but he is wrong. For some people money is neither the aim nor the difference. Call it vanity, religion, male hormones it doesn’t really matter, people will die and the USA…
There is no Democracy
where there is no informed voter. The beginning and end of all freedom is knowledge. Knowledge of what makes you free, knowledge of what makes you a servant. And all knowledge begins with questions. If you do not know, do not trust someone else to inform you they will have an agenda. Find out for…
Political Theory
There is a theory that democratic governments tend towards a liberalism that produces a kick-back into a more authoritarian regime, which it turn tends towards such extreme totalitarianism that a rebellion produces a more democratic government. This natural political barometer has been seen in part in Syria helped in large measure by outside factors, and…
When In Rome
The recent revenge on a few bankers is almost too ridiculous to mention for the panaceas thrown to the people have always been the way of tyrants and despots and I am sure a few hundred years ago a few men would be without their heads today. What was more interesting was a contrite business…
Fighting For Votes
No country in the world has ever given voting rights to citizens without a fight. And with the struggle in the Middle East for democratic rights its become obvious that people the world over want those rights. So why the fighting? The reasoned critique of leadership starts with the tribal ‘headman’, the best fighter, the…
True Democracy
I was always surprised as a teenager and beginning to think about politics in the West, how people voted for things that were of particular moment to them. It seemed to me strange to vote for a leader of a country based narrowly of the benefits that would accrue to oneself from any particular candidate….