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Originally Posted by jammies
Equality isn't what we have, so if that is your approach to people, exactly why shouldn't that same approach apply to the laws of the land? You can talk all you want about treating people with respect, but that is long on the feel-good and short on the useful; I still don't see any suggestions on what you think is the right way to go forward. If it is more of "let the chiefs keep on screwing over the people 'cause otherwise it's interference in their affairs", I'm not really seeing how that is far more insensitive than anything I've brought up.
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Some chiefs are screwing over the people, some aren't. The Chiefs and their councils have only had any real power for about twenty years. This is a short time for the people to learn the responsibilities of democracy. Cronyism [ interesting, I just looked up cronyism on Answers to check the spelling and the first item is George W. Bush] goes on there and it goes on in our government too. The big difference is in the size of the pie being divided.
Even Canada's early democratic history didn't go to smoothly from what I remember in school and corruption is still around. Didn't some guy in Quebec just get 5 years for being on the receiving end of free government money. I can't see that by taking away what little they have [your solution] is going to make things better.