That is the ritual. Ballots, speeches, a count, a concession, a swearing-in. We call it democracy because the crowd got a turn at the lever. Then the lever disappears, and what remains is an office that can move armies, write emergency rules, staff the courts, steer the prosecutors, flood the airwaves, and dare the rest of the system to catch up.

A vote is not self-government. A vote is a hiring decision. Democracy would be the hiring decision plus hard limits on what the hire is allowed to do. What we actually built is closer to an elective throne: periodic permission to concentrate power, then a long stretch where the concentrated power is the point.

Unlimited power in one pair of hands is not “the will of the people.” It is the will of whoever holds the office, filtered through fear, loyalty, and the knowledge that most checks arrive late. Legislatures defer. Agencies obey. Courts take years. Media rewards spectacle. The public is told that opposing the person is opposing the vote that put them there — which is how a majority-of-a-moment becomes a license for everything.

That is the opposite of a democracy. Democracy is rule constrained by law, by rival centres of power, by time, by the possibility of being told no. Autocracy with a polling date is still autocracy. The ballot does not wash the crown. It only tells you who gets to wear it until the next argument about whether the crown is even allowed to come off.

2023 Findings in Spain found that 0.6% of the population of Spain had been sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests and laity. Up to 50 million alive on any day who have been raped or abused by Catholic clergy &/or Catholic laity

Current world population is 8 billion - 0.6% = 48 million alive today who are likely to have been raped by Catholics globally.

The church protected the perpetrators, not the victims

"This is a matter for the church and I respect the internal judgements of the church. I don't stand outside the church and provide them with public lectures in terms of how they should behave. I've noted carefully what his Holiness has said in the United States. Obviously that was a source of great comfort and healing in the United States. I'm like all Australians very much looking forward to what the Pope has to say here in Australia as well, as I am to my own conversation with the Pope later this morning." Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, 17 July 2008. more

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Wednesday, 22 June 2022 - I may not have this down syntax, word and letter perfect or with absolute precision in every aspect; however time and the evidence will show that I am closer to the truth than any religion has been or will likely be.
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