I wish the focus weren't always on individuals. The problems are systemic!
The US and Candian democratic institutions are weak, and focused on corporate interests. There is a blindspot when it comes to the fan club corporations that operate outside parliament/congress which are also corporations.
All the political parties have corporate "primary" races for "leadership": New and classic Democrats, Liberals, Greens, Conservatives, Republicans, Bloc. This corruption isn't specific to any one party, or specific to the left or the right.
Some of the same people who have been fighting hard to have corporate appointees (party top-ups or party block voting) entering parliament are the same people who are confusingly concerned about the centralization of power which Trump/Musk have and Polievre will soon have.
The problem are with weak centralized democratic institutions, not with specific individuals who might exploit those institutions.
I wish the focus weren't always on individuals. The problems are systemic!
The US and Candian democratic institutions are weak, and focused on corporate interests. There is a blindspot when it comes to the fan club corporations that operate outside parliament/congress which are also corporations.
https://www.davidgraham.ca/p/leadership-by-caucus
All the political parties have corporate "primary" races for "leadership": New and classic Democrats, Liberals, Greens, Conservatives, Republicans, Bloc. This corruption isn't specific to any one party, or specific to the left or the right.
Some of the same people who have been fighting hard to have corporate appointees (party top-ups or party block voting) entering parliament are the same people who are confusingly concerned about the centralization of power which Trump/Musk have and Polievre will soon have.
The problem are with weak centralized democratic institutions, not with specific individuals who might exploit those institutions.
Canada: https://mcormond.blogspot.com/2021/01/lets-work-to-fix-parliamentary-flaws.html
USA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C3Yrwwwr1s
There’s a joke in diplomatic communities: "Why has there never been a coup in the US? Because there are no American embassies there."
But who needs an embassy, when you’ve got the financial control?