“Like Trump, Bolsonaro now faces investigations and possible criminal charges that have been delayed while he enjoyed presidential immunity. He has told two senior officials he is worried that, out of office, he will go to prison.”
I hope that the Brazilian justice system works faster than ours has to date!
“Like Trump, Bolsonaro now faces investigations and possible criminal charges that have been delayed while he enjoyed presidential immunity. He has told two senior officials he is worried that, out of office, he will go to prison.”
I hope that the Brazilian justice system works faster than ours has to date!
And hope that it works better. In the USA, we don't jail oligarchs who commit crimes, even capital offenses (example is the incorporated drug gang of the Sacklers), or regulate corporations. Oligarchs pay money to get out of just punishments and corporations currently regulate government, not the reverse. We are in a number of ways a third world plutocracy, not a first-world democracy.
How low can America sink? What will our lives be like a month from now?
The latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index ranks the United States 26th of 167 countries, sandwiched between Chile and Estonia, when measuring electoral process, government functionality, political participation, political culture and civil liberties.
U.S. remains a ‘flawed democracy’ in annual rankings - The Fulcrum
The U.S. is still classified by EIU as a flawed democracy, and has been since 2016. The report points to extreme polarization and “gerrymandering” as key issues facing the country.
There IS a way out of our low ranking, and the powerlessness we feel, which is real.
Democracies flourish with more than two political parties and proportional representation; corrupt plutocracies that claim to be democracies yet leave citizens powerless through gerrymandered districts do not thrive under proportional representation.
How do you gerrymander the districts to place a corrupt party in charge with proportional representation? YOU DON'T!
And this is why the operatives of both of our plutocratic parties don't want voters to (1) know about proportional representation or (2) have it taught in schools.
The fact so few have ever seen such ballots shows the strength of censorship and the brainwashing that we have been exposed to. The two plutocratic parties will not educate citizens about this. We will need to educate ourselves and others, not with the help of our two cartel parties, but in spite of anything that these two plutocratic parties can do to prevent it. Please SHARE as many places as possible!
Speaking of other countries, Rowshan, here is Politics Girl Leigh McGowan speaking to our wonderful ex-pats. Vote vote vote, wherever you are in the world. Our expats, millions of them, can make a difference.
“Like Trump, Bolsonaro now faces investigations and possible criminal charges that have been delayed while he enjoyed presidential immunity. He has told two senior officials he is worried that, out of office, he will go to prison.”
I hope that the Brazilian justice system works faster than ours has to date!
And hope that it works better. In the USA, we don't jail oligarchs who commit crimes, even capital offenses (example is the incorporated drug gang of the Sacklers), or regulate corporations. Oligarchs pay money to get out of just punishments and corporations currently regulate government, not the reverse. We are in a number of ways a third world plutocracy, not a first-world democracy.
How low can America sink? What will our lives be like a month from now?
The latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index ranks the United States 26th of 167 countries, sandwiched between Chile and Estonia, when measuring electoral process, government functionality, political participation, political culture and civil liberties.
U.S. remains a ‘flawed democracy’ in annual rankings - The Fulcrum
https://thefulcrum.us/big-picture/Leveraging-big-ideas/flawed-democracy
The U.S. is still classified by EIU as a flawed democracy, and has been since 2016. The report points to extreme polarization and “gerrymandering” as key issues facing the country.
Mapped: The State of Global Democracy in 2022
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-state-of-global-democracy-2022/
There IS a way out of our low ranking, and the powerlessness we feel, which is real.
Democracies flourish with more than two political parties and proportional representation; corrupt plutocracies that claim to be democracies yet leave citizens powerless through gerrymandered districts do not thrive under proportional representation.
How do you gerrymander the districts to place a corrupt party in charge with proportional representation? YOU DON'T!
And this is why the operatives of both of our plutocratic parties don't want voters to (1) know about proportional representation or (2) have it taught in schools.
The fact so few have ever seen such ballots shows the strength of censorship and the brainwashing that we have been exposed to. The two plutocratic parties will not educate citizens about this. We will need to educate ourselves and others, not with the help of our two cartel parties, but in spite of anything that these two plutocratic parties can do to prevent it. Please SHARE as many places as possible!
https://www.accuratedemocracy.com/d_ballot.htm
If it doesn’t, they are screwed
Speaking of other countries, Rowshan, here is Politics Girl Leigh McGowan speaking to our wonderful ex-pats. Vote vote vote, wherever you are in the world. Our expats, millions of them, can make a difference.
Unita 🗽
https://youtu.be/JSFqbCB7CBo
Hear, hear!!!