https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/11/22/democracy-and-governments-and-politics/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2023/11/22/democracy-and-governments-and-politics/#comment-98785 Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:46:53 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=27500#comment-98785 “My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest. No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak. Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism. True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village” – Mahatma Gandhi

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