Tag: Changes Required

American Hypocrisy

How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

Our American democracy, even when we were happy with it and thought it was doing really well, it already had a whole series of undemocratic natures that no other healthy liberal democracy has.

Our electoral college, nobody has that. That was a compromise to rural states. We have the fact that our elections are run by partisan agents. No other healthy liberal democracy has that. Canada, this enormous country, has an independent electoral commission that runs all of the elections. Every ballot is the same no matter if you vote in Prince Edward Island or the Yukon. Or that we allow so much money to be injected into our system. Nobody else has this.

Source: How America’s Democracy Is “Ripe to Be Exploited”

ABC

Playing devil’s advocate or becoming the antichrist — a quandary at the ABC

The ABC has recently accepted all the recommendations provided by the review of its complaints process. A major recommendation that they be directly responsible to the Board and bypass the ABC’s editorial staff. However, given the Board wasn’t selected on merit alone for the past decade, as required by statute, and the LNP government ensured it was biased in its favor the only option now is to sack it. Then reappoint a new one and to make the ABC complaints process really independent in accordance with the intentions of the Act. https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/abc/13906138?jwsource=cl

Conspiracists see that as the long-term end-game in which many of those who built trust in the ABC have been recruited to destroy it. What can’t be explained is how they might have been persuaded to sacrifice their precious reputations to contribute to that end.

Source: Playing devil’s advocate or becoming the antichrist — a quandary at the ABC

Globalisation

We shouldn’t turn our backs on the world economy

Remember globalisation? It was big news some years back. Now, however, the leaders of the global economy worry that public opinion is turning against it, pressuring governments to reverse it.

Source: We shouldn’t turn our backs on the world economy