Letter
Dirty doings finally exposed
I have long been an admirer of Jenny and her dogged and courageous attempt to expose the back-door dealings that exposed the fatal weakness at the heart of our “democracy”.
The fact that we still call ourselves a democracy is a tribute to the continued fraudulent reasoning of our often hereditary elites to describe a system where the people’s will is subject to the ultimate power of cancellation by a feudal sovereign of a long dead empire on the other side of the planet.
If democracy is as Lincoln said in his Gettysburg address “government of the people, for the people and by the people”, then our democracy has always been a fraud. It has been designed to provide ultimate power to decide how we are governed to a distant monarch whose principal role is the preservation of the power of a feudal aristocracy of a country 17,000 kilometres away from us. More strength to those who demonstrate our continued infantile incapacity to untie the apron strings.
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041