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Thread #167497   Message #4045960
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-Apr-20 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK politics. Last ditch attempt
Subject: RE: BS: UK politics. Last ditch attempt
Baccy
One or limited party systems are inevitable when a country is attempting to change a system rather than adapt an existing one - as long as those in charge stick to their aims and those aims are just, I see no reason why a one-party system can't be adopted until stability is established in countries taking a new direction

Let's face it, when the British Empire fell, many of the newly independent counties were taken over by despots with no intention of introducing democracies and Britain embraced them with open arms as 'a safe pair of hands', even going as far as deposing elected leaders like Nkruma because they wouldn't dance to the West's tune -
Patrice Lumumba was thrown out of a plane and fair-minded UN representative, Dag Hammarskjöld had his plane blown up

Cuba - 90 miles from the US coast and under permanent threat of invasion (attacked on one occasion) - their president underwent over 100 assassination attempts, organised or supported by the US and a volunteer army of exiles stood ready in Miami to turn Cuba back into the 'American open sewer' it once was and return the land into the hands of the six families who once owned all of it
Despite this and a still running embargo, they introduced the finest education and health system in Latin America and slowly managed to turn the state from a feudal dictatorship into modern relatively democratic democracy - in little more than half a century

North Korea was literally 'bombed into the stone-age' with many of its people forced to live in caves after it was invaded by The West

China turned a massive feudal Empire into the worlds greatest manufacturing power in a relative ly short time and turned feudal serfs into workers with fairly decent living standards overall

The Soviet Union turned a massive feudal empire into a progressive country - high education level, good health service and a constitution that guaranteed a home for all, depite being invaded by 14 countries (including Britain and America) immediatley it decalred Socialist aims, a |Civil War, a devastating and destructive scorched earth world war in which they lost more than any other nation (that included treatment by the Nazis comparable to they of the Jews) - and a Cold War that should have stunted its growth, but din't - forty years after their revolution they were throwing Sputniks into space and competing o the world stage

Vietmam fought Japan, France and worst of all the US to gain independence - beating them all
The Yanks poured burning petrol and carcinogenic chemicals onto their land and people for 14 years and forced their young women to have sex with animals for their entertainment - they are still pulling live land-mines out of the ground   

That things went wrong, sometimes because of human corruption, but mainly because of the siege conditions is true and sometimes avoidable, but it is hardly fair to compare it to a system like ours that is based on inequality and class division and has created the greatest ever gap between haves and have nots ever - still growing a a rate of knots

"just a couple angry people "
If the mods did their job, and showed a little respect for those they were working on behalf of rarthar than sometimes behaving like the trolls they should be able to control, maybe some of us wouldn't be as angry as we are
Jst a thought - keep well
Jim