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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (196789)	2/28/2023 6:15:01 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217549

The instance is a useful point of comparison... It was OBVIOUS the change was needed... that China's policy was stupid... Chinese had to do what I suggest is what you will have to do when you have morons in charge... escalating the protest to the point that "those in charge" feel they're losing their grip on power because of it... And, when the choice is "change" or "swing from a lamp post"... change it is. Democracy in THEORY... obviates the need for that insanity in authoritarian government constantly destabilizing society BOTH with the excess in, and society too often tolerating imposition of stupid policy... AND with the only redress to that excess being in threats of that sort, even in order to implement the most obvious changes required... That's just stupidly inefficient... That's why I say... the obvious dismissal of the fully legitimate protests in Canada... because the Canadians have submitted to the subversion of their democratic processes... (as that is what ignoring Canadians fundamental rights is all about)... requires that they will have some future accounting come due... If you "win" the tactic, today... but, in the process... have subverted the legitimacy of the foundation that is the only thing that provides you with that basic social stability you expect... as people no longer trust you... and as people now understand that change will only occur with greater violence ? Be careful what you ask for... because odds are good you'll get it. China's own submission to the violence of the mob... is hardly an endorsement of the great benefit apparent in "democracy in action" in China ? I doubt Canada's own inexperienced would be tyrants... having clearly muffed the "fundamental legitimacy" thing... will prove to have anything like the sort of judgement required to get it right... and submit rather than swing, when and if that time comes... Because, given the fact in having those Democratic traditions... the error made is not politically survivable... while violating them to survive politically... leads to lampposts...