Letter

In response to Trump’s disruption in Canada leaves the G7 at a crossroads

Torturing the definition of Liberal Democratic

It tortures language beyond its capacity to suggest that the G7 “was always a group of like-minded states that promoted liberal democratic values and supported democratic policy actions”.

Several of the countries involved, not excluding that US, have long since become oligarchies that rarely, if ever, reflect democratic values. Indeed, the US drafters of their Constitution deliberately set out, as they explained themselves, to limit democracy as far as they could.

Public opinion poll after public opinion poll reflect what vanishingly small effect public opinion has on public policy. Democracy in the US is generally a performative art designed to control the “bewildered herd”.

— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041