The State can always do as it pleases without the consent of the People on all issues whether mooted at elections or not, for the winning Political Party leader is the Supreme Authority, and He can never be wrong in a democracy...
IF ever I had a country : LVIII - LIX
LVIII
IF ever I had a fantasy country
And if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
I'd certainly opt for a country not run by one who studied philosophy
For the simple reason you can blame any other kind of dope for sheer hypocrisy
For not having studied philosophy and pretending to be very democracy savvy
Especially when the victims* of the country's secret services can hit back at the ruling party
That is, if ever I were left to choose a non-hypocritical country existing in reality
And even if I never ever had no country (not) up to my fancy
Note : * It's a published fact that a French writer and literary anchor on French TV (whom I once met, in 1974, selling his self-published book in the streets of the Latin Quarter) never slept in the same bed for fourteen months for the late President François Mitterrand had ordered the secret services to snuff this son of an Admiral out. His " crime d'Etat " happened to be a manuscript he authored on the President's daughter whose mother was his mistress while in office. The " crime " however was expunged when the author in the presence of TV cameras burnt the manuscript at the portals of the Elysée Presidential Palace.
LIX
IF ever I had a phantasmagorical country
And if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
I'd certainly not opt for a country where the S.S. and the Police drug gang-rape and press-gang the mother of your infant son with impugnity
Nor opt for a so-called champion human rights country which hinders your every step and plunges you into solipsistic ignominy
Keeps you embroiled in litigation instituted managed and obstructed by near-sighted authority
While it siphons and floods your tiny ground-floor apartment with the precious toilet refuse of fourteen storeys of family
That is, if ever I were left to choose a country existing in reality
And even if I never ever had no country to fancy
Bonjour Ron ! Thanks very much for both your comments on the last two "If ever I had a country" sequence. As you say "superior" people must be concocted by belief as most people do with "gods". Oddly enough, the Yijing, ancient Chinese Classic of Change, too, targets the Junzi, the Superior Being with its advice. I wonder whether its authors ever thought of our political leaders, that is, those who forced themselves on us, having doubtless "believed" they were God's gifts to mankind... Every good wish.
Some really wishful thinking here that will only come to pass when everyone stopped believing that there are "superior" people who can do things for us.
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