When it really happens: SHTF...

[Surpmil]

Communication is paramount in such situations. And lots of so called leaders lack skills in that field. Plus, they are also incredibly arrogant, and that leads to “unhappy” people.
It is the same here, we just can’t carry weapons around. But if it goes on like this, someone will go crazy and things might quickly go south...
That is what makes me!!! Crazy. Talk to people in a clear way, as if they were adults (they are when you want their vote, when you tax them, when you call them to serve in wartime...). Why not treat them as such now?
A leader knows how to talk to people. Spoiled bullies don’t. We are surrounded by bullies now...

The bottom line friends it that democracy like muscle atrophies without use.

We are happy to pursue our own whims and fancies, but how much time and effort do we put into our societies, and how they are governed?

Most of us put very little.

Looking back through history, one sees over and over again this cycle of apathy or refusal to participate in the process, while abuses and anger against them gradually builds until the point of explosion.

We live in democracies; they will only remain such to the degree that we participate in them.

Sitting on our hands and saying, "Oh, it doesn't make any difference what I do", is nothing but a lazy cop-out. It does make a difference, and the more who participate, the greater the difference each makes.

In a parliamentary democracy, the candidate nomination in a given riding can be controlled or over-turned by as little as a few hundred determined and unified voters. This fact puts the fear of God into elected MPs. Yes, party HQs can and sometimes do impose candidates on a riding, but the political cost and fallout from doing so, especially against the wishes of most party members in the riding, or worse against an elected candidate the party HQ does not approve, that can be very damaging to a party's chances in that riding.

Join the party of your choice, join it with other people you know who have similar concerns to yours, meet, communicate, learn about the process, sit on the local party executive. TAKE OVER.

It is much, much easier than it looks!

Other people served their time under fire; we can't serve a little time in politics?

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