lol Um, jeeez, professor ..... really? We had no idea.
If they're saying it then they're thinking about it, it not like these things don't happen or there isn't a certain percentage of the population just waiting for the chance to let the destructive side out.
Like I said, we don't live in a democracy; we live in an oligarchic and corporatocratic plutarchy. Decent credo, but that's only my SOP or methodology.
Not by choice.
Most people would prefer to have input into laws and policies that deeply affect their lives, it takes a concerted effort to deny that. As long as the process is still there then there's hope of change.
And where do lobbyists and private interests have their interests?Mainly in business
It's not all equal, if your main intent is to maximize your short term profits and exagerate your value to manipulate the share price then you're not even working in the best interests of your shareholders let alone the broader community if jobs are being lost or sent oversees and "profits" accumulated in fewer and fewer hands. There needs to be some sort of overall standard set that prevents the more destructive side of capitalism from dominating as we've been seeing for the last several decades in North America. Profits and share prices don't mean much if in the process communities and entire regions suffer economic devastation as a few individuals get rich. ERON was one of the worst examples of this as the people in charge vastly inflated the companies value and allowed the energy trading floor to create chaos in states like California. Pretty clearly if lobbyists and insiders are working for their own interests in a way that impoverishes others on a large scale then the system isn't going to be sustainable, the very communities they're supposed to be working to build up are in fact being torn down.
Business engineered the entire thing and gov'ts allowed it and enabled it.
Not all business, just those individuals who are willing to exploit the vulnerabilities in the system for their own short term gain. That's why appropriate oversight is necessary.
No, it doesn't have to be, but profit drives business and the people that "call the shots" are not necessarily corrupt or retarded, just dismissive.
Once again profit is a relative not an absolute term. You can increase short term profit by slashing jobs or services, but in the end if you're destroying the overall health of a company or worse the social structure it's part of, in the long term many "profits" are in fact loses. It's why lobbyists representing narrow short-sighted interests shouldn't be writing laws and implementing policies.
Only according to hypothesis and democratic theory.
It's still a relativity issue, Canada has had much more citizen input than say, the old USSR, China or North Korea. And we have the means to implement important and necessary changes that may conflict with the oligarchies interests that you state really run things. The next goverment could bring about a large change in policy direction, we're not forced to go along with arbitrary choices, it may be hard to assert that right sometimes, but it's there.
Ah, so you think anything other than the representative, pseudo-democratic system we have is no good? roflmao That's funny.
People in many other nations can be jailed or even executed for even stating opinions in opposition to the ruling power. I don't think our freedoms are something to be laughed at, they're something to demand respect for from the government and people who would like to see them removed.
I have yet to see you show how we live in a democracy in the first place, and not a oligarchy/plutocracy/corporatocracy.
Once again you seem to want to place this in absolute not relative terms, our system isn't perfect and it's had the crap kicked out of it in recent decades due to the sovereignty fight and the current government which does seem to see democracy in the same terms you do, as something to exclusively be manipulated for selfish interests. I see there as being far more health in the underlying political structure you do, I guess we'll find out in the coming years.
btw you remind me of a character from a movie from the eighties whose philosophy was "life sucks so be a schmuck", the world doesn't just come as it is with no choices, to a large degree it's what we make of it. And if we believe that we have no choices then we make that part of our reality.
