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Jun 28Liked by Leah Gunn Barrett

Your last 2 paras also apply to UK, but without either candidate being octogenarian. Thus does democracy die: not through public disorder or voter abstention, but by politics and politicans being bought by the ultra-wealthy. Welcome to fascist feudalism.

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Yes, the UK is in the same sinking boat. The system needs to be smashed - it can't be reformed. For Scotland, it means getting out of the union but putting something very different in its place - real popular sovereignty - decentralised direct democracy. We have a long way to go....

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