i'm going to close this down by making a request, and this request is not limited to this issue, or this government, or even this country.

to all those bastards that would wield power to harm others, however necessarily or unnecessarily, let this point be clear: a leader, be they a prince or something else, should always be judging themselves through the long lens of history, rather than the short term fluctuations of public pressure.

democracy would be preferable. but, despite the heavy and thick propaganda, it's really not possible to synthesize republican government with any kind of democracy. there is no stable way to build a government where representatives are constantly being replaced via plebiscite; either you elect people and walk off, or you move to direct democracy. our system is not a direct democracy, and is therefore not really a democracy at all, and in such a system a government is really truly required via obligation to be unpopular, when it feels it is necessary, for that is the reason we have a representative government, and not a democracy.

the system requires benevolence, which in context means having the integrity to make unpopular decisions that will eventually be seen as correct.

so, this is my request: fuck populism. be benevolent.



jagmeet singh must cut his beard.