A Story for Progressive Americans – Mouseland by Tommy Douglas
After the defeat of equal marriage legislation in the State of New York last week and the amount of disappointment felt by many progressive Americans I have witnessed on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, I wanted to share a story told by the Greatest Canadian – Tommy Douglas (Canada’s creator of Universal Healthcare) with my American friends. As early as the 1940s, he travelled the province of Saskatchewan using the story of Mouseland to illustrate the problems with political duopoly between two old line parties that exist to compete against each other in an outdated system for power. Most often at the expense of the average citizen. I have posted a video from the CBC series “Prairie Giant” that shares this story with you. It just might give you some inspiration and something to seriously consider in your sad state of political affairs. Not that Canada’s is any better at the moment.
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