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SMC, people in the West...they won't go for these policies. Like it or not, the likes of you, I and those sick to the back teeth of corporations running government are an insignificant minority. People just don't care where the money is coming from providing they have money in their back pockets.

Imposing a few policies in the current climate of education and culture won't be enough; to be frank, it can't work without a widespread grass roots movement. How many people actually realise that they have been disenfranchised? Nowhere near the amount needed to generate real, lasting change.

The West needs an enlightenment along the lines of the English, French and American versions of the 18th century: no amount of legislation is going to change anything without a supporting wider climate of education and culture, people will simply lurch from one corporate/media driven policy to another. I suppose it boils down to possessions versus liberty, and the West isn't enlightened enough to understand which is the more self-serving of the two; future generations understand oppression, in years to come people will look back at us in a similar fashion to how we look back at the absolutism of the 18th century.  Either that, or find an uninhabited Island and set up shop under a truly egalitarian system with no exclusive and inclusive policies on any grounds whatsoever.....man, woman, beast, race, religion etc...everyone gets a fair crack of the whip.