Re: The joy of Democracy

On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:37:15 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

Is Canada more party-based, like the UK and NZ?

 
Yes - and unfortunately we're starting to accumulate our share of
right-wing whacko candidates, both federally and provincially.

Do you have any media owned by Rupert Murdoch? That seems to be a common
factor behind the power of the right-wing whacko faction in the US, UK and
Australia, at least. Here in NZ we seem to be mercifully free of Uncle
Rupie’s meddling. Not that we don’t have our own right-wing whackos
(including religious ones), but thankfully they can never get enough votes
to do significant damage.

We are a liberal and diverse secular democracy, and we like to keep things
that way.