IT TAKES NUMBERS & OVERALL PUBLIC ANIMOSITY TO FORCE CHANGE FROM OUR GOVERNMENTS

Right and wrong are way down the list of criteria that governments use to either change policy or make it in the first place. Far more important to them is the politics of the situation. Who and how many will be he helped by a change in government position and who wil be harmed or upset by that same change? Then of course there is the question of how many votes could potentially be lost by doing something in the public interest. Seriously, governments can and do lose votes sometimes when doing the right things. Can the government of the day sell their decision to the public? Whether by telling the truth or by lying how likely are they to regret doing the right thing? How powerful are the opposing forces (i.e. private interests not public interests)? ............................................................................................................. Black Lives Matter should have been a win-win for all. It's not viewed that way in so many, utterly predictable U.S. states. Anybody remember George Wallace of Alabama? He was one of the few racists to end up sitting in a wheelchair courtesy of violence. Usually it's the minorities (blacks) who end up disabled or dead from majority violence. Southern U.S. states have resisted for many decades, attempts to change their anti-Black culture. All the forces of the state, especially including police have been politicized to enhance, exacerbate and enforce racism. This will only change after decades of new generations raised totally differently. Schools could have taken a leadership role in the southern states in changing and improving attitudes towards minorities. My guess is that state controlled and funded public education has been stymied in that regard. .................................................................................................. Pollution should have been a no brainer throughout North America. It hasn't because big business and industry have long ago bought protection for themselves in the U.S. Congress. Money wins elections and they've already got it. Show me how many "independents" without party affiliation get elected anywhere at any level. Any and all party candidates for election need to be vetted thoroughly to avoid the embarassment of a non corporate believer getting elected. Right now there are Congressmen and Congresswomen in Congress looking around themselves in horror and realizing just how many of their colleagues are radicalized, brainwashed puppets unwilling and unable to think for themselves. Perhaps to a lesser extent only, Canadian politicians are bought and paid for through their parties as well. .................................................................................................... Are you an Albertan politician? Then you had better be in favour of more not less oil extraction. Yes you can mouth platitudes about sustainable and clean extraction down to the very last drop, but the world are very slowly in the process of weaning themselves off of oil. It's taken the threat of world starvation, economic collapse and environmental collapse to make any progress at all. This is the human condition. Parasites and leeches making money from a dysfunctional and unsustainable system will continue to squeeze the last possible nickel from oil right up to the day that it kills everyone else. The psychopaths have long been in control and the money they've made and spent has long given them the veneer of being smart and civilized when they are neither. Being in control and in charge even in a democracy means being ruthless and caring nothing for your fellow citizens.