The trouble with democracy is that sometimes the wrong people win.
I know this because I’ve heard many people – both left and right – complain about an election result and some even go as far as suggesting that it’s a problem with the system. Usually this is just tinkering around the edges. You know the sort of thing: when the Coalition complains about preferential voting after being quite happy to rely on preferences even since the DLP made their raison d’etre keeping Labor out of office. Or when they complained about Gillard government relying on the Greens and independents to form government. Honestly, the government should be the largest party not some cobbled together group and when Gillard did that the largest party was the Liberal and the National Parties put together. From time to time, Labor, the Greens and other parties have argued that certain things shouldn’t be allowed such as billionaires being allowed to use their money to influence an election. Of course, it is – after all – their money and if they want to use it to buy something who are we to stop them. After all, some of the politicians that they buy are way past their use-by date and have very little value so it’s almost an act of charity…
But we’ve entered a strange world where people don’t seem to like the idea of democracy at all. I’ve heard a number of people express all sorts of negative things about the most recent US election and the election of Trump. Personally, I say, it’s their country and if they want to destroy it, we should let them. We should concentrate on making sure that we have the lifeboats well out of the way when the sinking takes so many things in the immediate vicinity down the gurgler with latest Trump Titanic to sink. I know many people are suggesting that the US is too big to fail but the man behind Trump Uni, Trump steaks, Trump Magazine, Trump Casinos, Trump Airlines and Trump insurrections is sure to find a way.
On the other hand, I did read an exchange between someone who was suggesting that Trump’s ignoring of the courts, the Constitution, the laws of Physics and the norms of syntax and clear speech was outrageous, only to be set straight by a MAGA supporter telling him that this was exactly what they voted for.
“A dictatorship?”
”Yes, because any Republican dictator would be better than any elected Democrat.”
It seems that we’re entering the Caligula stage of the American empire. You know, the guy who is alleged to have made his horse a senator… which may or may not be true but I’m having trouble being critical of it when comparing Trump’s decision to make RFK Jnr the man in charge of Health!
But at least they’re moving away from the Orwellian world of 1984 where things were named after the opposite of what they were doing. In that dystopian novel, The Ministry of Truth was all about lies and propaganda, the Ministry of Love was all about torture and oppression, the Ministry of Plenty was all about what they lacked and the Ministry of Peace was all about war. Pete Hegseth’s decision to rename the Pentagon the Department of War sounds like something from something from the Onion or Saturday Night Live, but it’s true.
And when he said that they’d be using “maximum lethality” not “tepid legality”, one wonders what is “tepid” about legality. I mean the word can mean either lukewarm or lacking enthusiasm. Presuming he means the latter, doesn’t that suggest that if they’re not concerned with “tepid legality” then they’re all about “enthusiastic legality”? While I’m unsure I understand exactly what he means, I’m pretty sure that he has only a vague idea of what he’s talking about.
After all, if you’re going to achieve “peace through strength”, where does that leave the Department of War once you’ve got all this peace and who’s in charge of defence if you’re playing an all out attack strategy. Or is your plan to obliterate everyone so that you don’t need to have defence? Or is Hegseth’s pastor right and the USA will be a Christian Theocracy inside two hundred years?
By the way, there was an article on how Albanese got booed at the football, prompting several social media comments about how we need to have an election to vote him out. I guess everyone may have changed their mind since the election four months ago but i suspect not. While undoubtedly some of the booing was political, it’s also worth pointing out that that the game was in Sydney where most of the crowd would have been Giants supporters and he was wearing a Hawks scarf.
Also by Rossleigh:
Anarchy Rules, OK or Trump, Sovereign Citizens And Tantrums!
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Maybe l’m thick but can anyone explain WTF he is talking about in this grab???
‘Kennedy claimed: “I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation. You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection. And I know that that’s not how our children are supposed to look.”’
Kerri Lynn: A master diagnostician can tell by just looking at the patient what diseases are present. Didn’t you know that? While RFKjr may only recently have heard of mitochondria, it doesn’t mean he can’t weave them into his diagnostic mantra.
Hope that clears it up. You too can go to Wikipedia and learn something about mitochondria. As for inflammation, everyone knows something about that, right?
Enjoy your day!
Or is your plan to obliterate everyone so that you don’t need to have defence?
No, the military industrial complex wouldn’t like that. They need widespread, ongoing armed conflict. The idea is to kill people at around the same rate as natural replacement. That way they’re never out of a job.
Problem is, RFK Jr is making sure the natural replacement rate is going to drop markedly, so there’s a major internal contradiction there. Maybe they’ll toss for it.