CedarTea on Nostr: Lesson 2: You need to stand up some sort of dual power that can prevent politicians ...

Lesson 2: You need to stand up some sort of dual power that can prevent politicians from speaking on your behalf

There are two main villains in the story here I want to point out: NL PM Alderdice and later NL Premier Smallwood.

Reading through *ahem* certain histories, you'll hear that NL willingly gave up democracy to establish the Amurlee Commission during the Great Depression. What's erased here, is that Alderdice gained power through a backdoor political coup after riots brought down...