It seems a pretty clear conflict of interest to allow ANY governing body to "postpone" elections in which it is their own jobs on the line. In a nation nominal run supposedly by the governed, it should be clear that any such decision, if the governors determined it might be a necessity, to get the final decision directly from the people who are supposed to be running the country - the citizenry. Therefore, the only legitimate way to do it would be to put that measure, by itself, up for a vote... a referendum of the People being herded into the chutes.
On the other hand,something like this might be expected in a country where citizens can be jailed for simply speaking their mind out loud, or jailed for being photographed simply holding a rifle in another country, etc. When a people start willingly allowing their overlords to incrementally curtail their basic freedoms, there is but one end it will ever come to if left to run unchecked, and the eventuality of them losing their voices entirely, even at the ballot box, is but the next step along that progression to totalitarianism.
I'd say the slide started probably with something simple like a tax for merely owning a television, regardless of whether said television was ever even actually turned on or not....
... but all such slides have to start somewhere, and it's usually somewhere small. It snowballs as it rolls down hill until it eventually steamrolls everything and everyone in it's path.
It's high time this slide was stopped. If a referendum on the issue were to be denied, the next step on the part of the People should involve pitchforks and torches. Firearms, knives, and bludgeons of course would be out of the question - those ships have already sailed.
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On the other hand,something like this might be expected in a country where citizens can be jailed for simply speaking their mind out loud, or jailed for being photographed simply holding a rifle in another country, etc. When a people start willingly allowing their overlords to incrementally curtail their basic freedoms, there is but one end it will ever come to if left to run unchecked, and the eventuality of them losing their voices entirely, even at the ballot box, is but the next step along that progression to totalitarianism.
I'd say the slide started probably with something simple like a tax for merely owning a television, regardless of whether said television was ever even actually turned on or not....
... but all such slides have to start somewhere, and it's usually somewhere small. It snowballs as it rolls down hill until it eventually steamrolls everything and everyone in it's path.
It's high time this slide was stopped. If a referendum on the issue were to be denied, the next step on the part of the People should involve pitchforks and torches. Firearms, knives, and bludgeons of course would be out of the question - those ships have already sailed.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake