Didn’t Solzhenitsyn say something along the same lines?
I agree with most of this thread. There were some comments made about Canada’s electoral system that need to be clarified though.
The population of each federal riding (similar to congressional district) electing MPs to parliament is often higher in the small-area urban ridings than the sprawling hinterland rural ridings. A rough guide would be that urban ridings have about 120,000 people in them and rural ridings between 50,000 and 100,000 in most cases. The same is true for provincial ridings (which are not always identical to federal ones).
Three other provisions in the constitution water down the population of outlying areas even more. Prince Edward Island is guaranteed four seats (out of 338) in parliament, the population there is barely sufficient to deserve one seat. The three territories, Yukon, NWT and Nunavut, all have one MP, but their population in total is about that of the average southern riding.
It’s almost the same disparity for large sparsely-populated ridings in northern parts of the ten provinces. One example would be Labrador, the mainland portion of the province of Newfoundland & Labrador; it has fewer people than any other riding outside of PEI or the three territories.
I think you might find similar population distributions in U.S. congressional districts but of course if you count dead and fictitious voters then the cities really move ahead fast.
We don’t have voting machines in Canada and there is no widespread suspicion or allegation of electoral fraud. The sad fact is that Canadians voted for a globalist regime fair and square. That’s the end game for the U.S., I suppose.
Even so, there are a lot of anti-globalists in Canada. I don’t think it reaches the proportions of some regions of the U.S. but it is probably on a par with New England or the Pacific Northwest. A constitution can guarantee rights but it’s the spirit of the people which is a more powerful guarantee, the old Soviet constitution said some things too, not many of them were ever honored by their governments.
Didn’t Solzhenitsyn say something along the same lines?
No, not exactly:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Regards,