These are appealing promises, but how exactly will
the government make these things happen, and why should we believe them?
Not exact matches
All of those
things happened not because of, but almost in spite of commercial and
government interests, and that's the really remarkable
thing: it was people who
made the Internet great.
When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who
made birth control
happen, who got women into positions of power in the
government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against
things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.
They argue — as Corbyn does when he claims credit for U-turns the
government has performed, such as over benefit reform or economic policy — that in holding to the faith they have exercised power, because power is simply the ability to
make or to prevent
things happening.
Finally a
government may just decide to
make it legal in a bid to secure votes, it's not the most principled
thing to do but similar
things have
happened before.
While we probably have to do one or both of those
things, I believe the
governments of the world are going to have to play a much bigger role than the so - called «free market» in
making this
happen.
They
happened because
governments made it easy for these
things to
happen.
We only have to look at the doctors and medical care over the last 25 years to see a pattern of what
happens when you do not change
things yourself, and allow
government and providers to
make the change.