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From: marjorie skeoch <marjorieskeoch@gmail.com>Subject: Fwd: Saturday Feb 19 2022Date: February 20, 2022 at 10:11:43 AM ESTTo: ALAN SKEOCH <alan.skeoch@rogers.com>
Dateline: Feb. 20, 2022
EPISODE 539 LOOPY DEMOCRACY — THE TRUCK CONVOY AND CHAOS IN CANADA, Saturday Feb 19 2022
To John and any others who have time to read today.
My story will be hard to understand today…I cannot understand it myself..
I am trying to get a mental handle on the events. Marjorie and I took photos
as things unfolded on Saturday. February 19, 2022. These pictures are astounding to us. Like a
movie … a piece of fiction. In midst of it alll my mouse failed. It just would not
move just like the protesters. Eventually my nephew Robert got us a new mouse…a
super mouse.
But I am still processing events. Frankly the whole mess in Ottawa makes no
sense at all. Irrational actions in the extreme category that confirms some of
my earlier teaching efforts regarding democracy.
“Democracy is a troubled spirit whose dream, if it dream, presents only visions of hell.”
With that quote we would discuss the perils of Direct democracy where Everyman and
everywoman believe that their ideas matter most and must be expressed. Today we
have a great example of ‘loopy democracy’ where the least well informed ten percent
of our nation attempted to seize control of the state in a confused bubble of loopy dangerous ideas.
So what about our real system of representative democracy? I believed in that.
Until recently. Our politicians let us down big time. Some of them even embracing
the loopy democrats in the protest who wanted the Governor General to seize
the reins of government snd then turn the reins over to them. insanity on the march.
All of us stunned and might profit from a time on the bouncy castle.
alan skeoch
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