Sweet love making may never appear to be even remotely associated with terrifying pain, months of discomfort and disability and regret, but it often is. Citizens seem at home with political charlatans begging for money to fund the services of which governments are the only legal providers. Most recently we are hearing a lot of talk about balanced budgets, and other levels of government – for example the federal government – not putting enough funds forward to assist regional budgets, as if budgets are not supposed to be a statement of spending based upon what one has or what one can project to have. Democracy like marriages and even friendships can get messy, so let’s wake up and smell the tea and stop sipping the deadly Kool-Aid of partisan politics and perfect privileged lives.

Since when is credit a violation of human dignity

Balanced budgets and normalizing violence against migrants, women and children are part of the same master plan as the right to bear arms, freedom of expression, reservations and residential schools. Are fiscally conservative politicians and their allies buying homes and cars with their debit cards? Have they forgotten that the government-issued coins and bills can be worth nothing overnight? Even the gold, silver, platinum and lithium can plunge to zero value in a trice. With panhandling from the federal government becoming the latest scam let’s get ready to be taxed into slavery. Democracy is messy, governance, but neither needs to turn into insurrection and totalitarian tyranny.