20230415 : dinausour democracies...?
Don't worry, I am not getting into whether one country or the other has democracy 🙂 My thinking of late is no country in the world has democracy belonging to this century. Folks may claim to have the world's oldest democracy, or largest, or most diverse or most modern etc., etc. The are all democratic maybe but democracies of past centuries. Dinosaur democracies in my view. In all the democracies and democratic processes I know, we elect a party or coalition of majority into power to rule the nation. All parties have a manifesto (a party or coalition mindset). It could be called Left or Right, conservative or liberal, green or some other colour, labour or something else , etc. But what if I am not alined with any single party's mind on every issue. I might be agreeable with one party's thinking on human rights, another party's religious beliefs, another's views on health, yet another's on minorities etc. I don't have a way for that thinking. I think the