Letter
What democracy?
For every example of a succesful democracy, there are marginal/unsucessful so-called democracies.
The latest and least dependable is the US, the democracy that has been proven to have interfered more times to undermine the democratic process of its own and other countries, including our own.
The behaviour of the latest questionably democratically elected US president shows little regard for democracy and the civil liberties of US citizens.
In our own country, those civil liberties are under threat from the state premiers (mostly Labor) in particular, who have been passing Trump-like laws.
I doubt if those who protested against the Vietnam and Iraqi wars etc would be allowed to protest today. Not that the police were always squeaky clean then.
There are sufficently suspect numbers of “democracies” around the world to again raise questions as to whether democracy is the best system.
If China and the Chinese are living in harmony, improving the living standard of the population, perhaps we, who live in democratic glass houses, should stop throwing stones and learn, selecting the good, disgarding the bad and benefit from trading with each other.
— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SĄ