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Making of a dictatorship, Canadian style

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From Occupy Canada:

“One of the first steps Stalin took to establish his dictatorship of the Ukraine was to destroy the spirit of the farmers by breaking their protest of 1927. Once this was done, the spirit of the nation was soon to follow and thus the Ukraine entered a 70 year dictatorship.

When the Nazi dictatorship of Germany was being established it was pointed out by a famous writer that as each protest was put down, he let it go because he was able to rationalize how it didn’t really affect him. This was fine until the Gestapo next knocked on his door at which point he realized there was no one left to help him.

Canada is now experiencing a similar development of a “Reform Party” dictatorship. This is because, firstly, Canada has the unique parliamentary system in which the Prime Minister’s office is virtually a dictatorship in … Continue reading →

Excluded again – really?

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The Green Party won over almost 11 % of the voting German population resulting in 68 seats in the Bundestag in 2009 – they have been in parliament since 1983 where – curiously, not only the liberal party of Germany, FDP, supported a non-confidence-vote that toppled their own coalition with the Social-Democrats SPD and made Helmut Kohl, CEO of the conservative party CDU, chancellor, but also saw the first Green Party members occupy seats in the German equivalent to the federal parliament.

How many of those seats, till 2day, a party gets, follows a system recommended by experts @ fairvote.ca in order 2 increase democracy in the great North – in good old this very similar electoral system sets the threshold 2 get for the proportional part (where the party average across the country is counted) at 5 percent, Austria thinks 4 is better, and the Knesset, the parliament … Continue reading →