Rex Murphy: In Justin Trudeau's world, Christians need not apply

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SvennoJ said:

binary solo said:
And finally, if you don't want to compromise DON'T EFFING GO INTO POLITICS!! And for public servants, if you don't like the laws that you have to administer then don't go into public service, or move to a different public service that has laws to administer that you do like. You live in a country that follows the rule of law principle. Learn what that means FFS and stop trying to assert that your religious beliefs usurp the rule of law in the act of carrying out the laws of your country that have been constitutionally validated!

Democracy is fucked anyway, 1 choice every 4 years on hundreds of issues. Yet voting on separate issues doesn't work either. Maybe in the future we can have a MMO called Sim Canada, and everyone can participate trying to balance the budget. Would be an interesting social experiment.

The answer to that is don't have political parties, and don't vote for people based on policy. The people you want running a country are people who have certain attributes (honesty, trustworthiness, a well trained mind, loyalty (to the country), recognised ability, experience, an open mind, and the less self-serving ego the better), problem is democracy as it is currently constructed almost encourages the exact opposite of all these attributes. Probably the worst possible attribute is being deeply committed to a specific ideology or set of policies, and again the current framing of democracy pretty much encourages these things. Given laws are always established through a process of negotiation, people with entrenched views are the worst possible people to participate in a system of negotiated decision-making. 

So, I say the whole system needs to be fundamentally transformed if people actually want politics and government to improve. The whole "definition of insanity" thing applies here. people want politics and government to change, but they think they can change it by doing exactly the same thing.