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WINTER No. 6
By Warwick McFadyen
People are bemoaning this election result but I think they have
the wrong end of the stick. We should be applauding the
glorious rainbow that our democracy can create from a million
teardrops, sorry, raindrops.
For instance, our democracy, which compels all adults to vote,
shows that all manner of people are heard and not only are
they heard but they can exercise their inalienable right to be
as stupid as they were born or have grown into. They can then
vote for someone who is as stupid as them. In our democracy,
everyone from the lowest quota of common sense to the
highest - has a chance to win a seat at the big chamber or the
little one.
Now the stupid people may take umbrage (look it up) at such a
description of themselves; they may say they merely hold a
different range of views to the rest of us, and they may even
toss it back and say were the stupid ones for not seeing the