Lessons Unlearned: Lanka’s Democrats Must Study The US Democrats
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
A tougher, tropical Trump, President Gotabaya bragged thus in a speech in Ampara, shown on TV news on Saturday, January 9
th 2021:
“…However, Nandasena Gotabaya has two characters [personalities]. Sometimes the Buddhist clergy still says to me that ‘we don’t want President Gotabaya; we want the Secretary of Defense– you must be a little harsh’. That also can be done. If that is the approach, I can also do it with that approach…You saw what happened to Prabhakaran when he began by trying to kill me with a bomb attack at the Pittala junction when I was Secretary Defense. But I finished it, with his body being carried like a dead dog on all fours at Nandikadal. [Things] Can be taken to that level too…”
but do you think in both party ies, the uprising, they are venting at the wrong folks? maybe they should go 200 miles south to washington? guest: a little bit of both. a lost them see wall street, first of all that is a symbol, they see that as controlling washington. whether that is right or wrong, that is their judgment. and it is not necessarily misfocused. neil: you are not saying that as someone from washington? guest: i think wall street is part of the problem but washington is where decisions are made. i would love them to focus more on washington. even if they disagree with me i have in problem. as the tea party has on a regular basis, the content of americans getting off the couch to advisor thais their opinions is overdue, people have
deeply and institutionally corrupt. designed for payoffs on every bill. the problem isn t individual politicians, though they really don t help much, the problem is the system itself. our representatives don t represent us. they represent the people who pay them, the lobbyists. joining me now to talk more about this is david soroda a radio show host, nationally syndicated columnist and author of the uprising which sounds pretty good to me now. david, is our system broken? it s absolutely broken, and it goes to the very question that you ve raised, which is who do these politicians work for? and really who s paying for them to go to work? and now they get paid a taxpayer salary, but their re-election is oftentimes based on how much money they can raise. and the vast majority of the money that they raise comes from extremely wealthy people from lobbyists, from special interests with issues before congress. so we have a system of legalized bribery in this in this