Canada

No, they are not excuses. They are the carefully upheld cheat codes for government and the preferred tools of corruption that plague North America and other places. There can be no real democracy when corporations can use bribes to sway political favour.

I can’t tell if you are actually suggesting that a system where the squeakiest wheel gets the grease, is actually good or not.

The right sure can whip themselves into a frenzy. But what good is that when it is really poorly planned, executed even worse, and most often based on lies and bigotry?

Politicians should by legally and morally bound to do what’s best for their country and their constituents regardless of their affiliations, beliefs, or opinions.

Sure, they swear the oaths, but how many actually heed them?

Just using the terms (left, right, liberal, conservative, centrist, far-left, far-right, etc) is actually helping feed the elite political establishment by falling into the trap they have set to keep us all arguing over nothing, while they pass laws and make deals to ultimately chip away at our mechanisms of meaningful progress.

If you ask people from any political belief what they want at their core for society, I am willing to bet you would get very similar answers ( jobs, safety, health care, future for next generations, etc), so why is their so much division?