On Condi and Democracy
Posted April 5th, 2006 by ringverse
Being told that we are "lucky" to live in a democracy and have the right to protest is easily the most patronising thing a politician can say. It ignores the fact that "luck" has nothing to do with it, and that the "right to protest", like all such rights, has been wrestled - spilling blood, sweat and tears - from those in authority by the protesters.
She is paid by the people in order to serve the people. It's time she thought about how lucky she is that we, the people, have given her the right to step down from power without the aid of a guillotine.
The protesters are lucky to have their rights? I think not. Especially not when members of the ruling class feel comfortable patronising or ignoring them.
Let them eat cake, eh Condi?
Spot on.
one could say, that Condi
one could say, that Condi herself was lucky to grow up in a democracy. If it wasn't for that and the blood sweat and tears that her fellow Americans did, then it's pretty possible that she wouldn't be where she is now.
"Being told that we are
"Being told that we are "lucky" to live in a democracy and have the right to protest is easily the most patronising thing a politician can say."
It probably came as a shock to Blair, he thought he'd abolished all such rights.
There is no luck to living
There is no luck to living in a democracy in which you are continually enfranchised - by phone, text or internet - to determine the course of prime-time reality television but entirely unable to have any say on a military campaign that has resulted in the deaths of over thirty thousand civilians. And counting.