Make-believe democracy

Rafe Mair, writing in The Tyee, hits the nail square on the head:

…we must address, and soon, how we can avoid consistently giving a party with 40 per cent or less of the popular vote 100 per cent of the power. The present state of affairs means that the majority might just as well be voteless and means further that in normal times, the Liberal caucus in Ontario (and perhaps Quebec) is all a leader must satisfy.

The time may be coming when across the land there will be changes proposed to our system of governance. An informed citizenry will be needed so we can sort out the horse buns from the bonbons. To prepare for that, we in the media must surely start by understanding how the country is really run, not how it’s run on paper.

It’s time that make-believe democracy is replaced with the real thing. (Fixing Our Democracy Disconnect)

The key question which remains unanswered: how do we get our citizenry informed, and thus able to choose a better way for themselves? I will be a part of that.