cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40140681
Fair Vote Canada on Bluesky
What’s more chilling than Trump’s presidency? The fact that we use the same system that just handed him total control.
First-past-the-post fuels a hyper-partisan two-party system.
If we want to protect democracy in Canada, we need proportional representation.
#cdnpoli
Reminds me of what Padme said in Star Wars’ Revenge of The Sith
What did Padme say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FFVWEQnSM
I seem to remember she said “Democracy”, but all the clips say “Liberty” so the actual quote is
“So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause”
Probably a conflation of this scene with the one where Palpatine says “I love democracy”.
Liberty and democracy are one and the same. If Canadian democracy goes down (of which we are witnessing now), at the very least we should put up a fight.