We are NOT a democracy. (I have to take a break here. my computer is in chaos and it's going to take me some time to fix it.)

We talk a great deal about democracy. Our politicians will talk about it forever. Alas! Whatever our babble might be the reality is that most don't even know the meaning of democracy. Worse, I can't think of any nation in history that has ever been a democracy. (In fairness, I have to say it's possible that Canada's NDP might believe in democracy. But I know of nobody else - and that holds true for all the nations I have ever come across in years of reading. The vague idea is that democracy is what guides our society in its activities - that society guides us. And so we sent troops to murder Afghans for 12 years. Then, I guess, society unguided them and we took them back while a nation of half wits cheered them for ----doing what? improving life in Afghanistan? Murdering children and babies to make our American friends happy? For kissing American asses? And the returning veterans came back to booze it up at the local Canadian Legion? Did the Legion think this had all been doing something to improve the world. Let's go back to the American revolution. George Washington had no respect whatever for the average person. Washington was the son of a British family of aristocracy that was financially going down hill. Thus his move to farm ownership in an American colony. However, he remained a man of the upper class with nothing but contempt for the American people. In the eyes of a George Washington the ordinary people did not exist. When he won the revolution, he declared it to be a republic - not a democracy -no - it was a republic to be be ruled by the very rich. He made no effort whatever to help the American people. He had nothing but contempt for them. And that has been true of American government ever since. Thus the failure of American governments is all these years to provide health care except for the very rich who could afford the monster prices of health care. The sole exception of the presidents was John F. Kennedy, the only president ever to care about the people. His war experience drove him to help the ordinary American people. So that's why the traditional people in power murdered him. Today, millions of Americans are dying in the streets, large numbers of them are children or elderly. And nobody gives a damn. Native people met the same fate. (Canada was slightly better, but not much.) In 1890, at a place called wounded knee, the U.S. army was sent to murder hundreds of members of a tribe who were no threat to the U.S. They were quite peaceful. So the U.S. decided to murder them. It sent troops with highly explosive artillery to murder them. At the end three hundred tribes people died as they cowered in the snow. Over half were women and children. Well, yes, many of the soldiers were killed. But they were killed by their own artillery. The U.S. also murdered it's way to stealing what was part of Mexico - now Texas and California. Canada, incidentally, did something useful - but it was not done by Liberals or Conservatives. It was done by the CCF (Canadian Cooperative Federation - the ancestor of today's NDP). The Liberals and the Conservatives would simply have acted like their American masters. But the CCF forced the Liberals and Conservatives to accept a medicare programme in which care was available to all who needed it. And it has been so popular that no liberals or conservatives have had the nerve to change it. To get back to actions of the U.S., it began, about 1900, it's mass murder and plundering of Latin America, something which the murdering thugs of the CIA could be useful for. Then, remarkably,. the U.S. produced a president who didn't want to plunder and murder. John F. Kennedy had served under dreadfully bloody fighting as the commander of a PT boat in the Pacific. He had seen friends killed. He had, himself, come close to death. He was determined not to kill people. So somebody killed him, and the CIA was almost certainly involved in the murder. Since then, every American president has been a happy murderer. Canada's Liberal and Conservatives, too, have become happy murderers at American wars that have no possible connection with us. The first was Korea. The biggest was (is) Afghanistan. Canadian troops are now in many danger spots that we don't even know the names of. Most notable was sending Canadian troops and police to murder people and destroy the government in Haiti. (Aren't you proud?) We also sent troops to murder children and rape women for 12 years in Afghanistan - a country that was no possible threat to us or anybody else. The Canadian Legion wet it's pants for a war that had nothing to do with us. (I suppose we could have sent troops to kill Americans. That, at least, would have been useful in a country being destroyed by Americans.) A veteran of that war once told me he was proud of having fought in Afghanistan. What a twit he was. The Canadian Legion and the Liberals and Conservatives were kissing American asses. They're still doing it. Then we have our very own scoundrels. When I lived for some twenty years in New Brunswick, I was struck by the blatant thievery of the Irving family. They demand - and get - huge sums of money from taxpayers -gifts of millions of dollars every year. Is that bad? You're damn right it is. In the first place, the Irvings demand and get millions of dollars from the people of New Brunswick. Why? Damned if I know why. They have largely destroyed the forests of New Brunwick for a scale of damage than can never be fixed. They fill the air with the carbondioxide that is killing us all. They own (and control) all the newspapers of the province - all of whom lie for them. They create massive poverty in the province of New Brunswick. The Irvings are evil in the fullest meaning of that world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is getting long - and I have a lot more to add to it. So I'll take break here, to give us all a chance to absorb it.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------