Raise the Hammer

Brandon, my apologies for making you ask questions and have you answer them too.

I think, I am beginning to get it now. Thanks for your patience.

"What RTH and other LRT supporters are trying to do is get the mayor to come out into the open with his decision making process and convince council openly with his reasons, feelings, instincts, or whatever he feels like using."

So that is the game! Why didn't you just tell me that at the beginning and make things easier for me? Now, we can simply use your "flat view" approach and quickly get signatures of all the Councillors for not being convinced 'openly', and really nail this thing down, right?

"This is the ugly process known as democracy."

I would never have known that. Hence all the abuse and slander. It is the process that is ugly, and all this while I thought it was slanderous people that were ugly. So silly of me! No wonder we couldn't see eye to eye for so long.

"The problem with giving people a vote is that sometimes they make the wrong decision which is why you have to persuade them, something the current mayor seems unable or unwilling to do."

So Brandon, why don't we just not give a vote to people since it is going to be such a headache sometimes. You know we can just follow Fred's example with WH of taking away the vote of the people living there, and there is no persuasion involved at all. The only issue may be the council, but we can easily get them to vote seven times openly, and besides everyone that really matters in the city is at RTH anyway with its own voting system as back up if ever the council fails to comply.

Things seemed so right with Fred. Why can't we just go back to those simple times.

Thank you Brandon for clarifying things so well, and all along I thought that it was me who could not tell the forest from the trees.