Dear Editor:
According to Wikipedia, kleptocracy, also referred to as thievocracy, is a government whose corrupt leaders use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds at the expense of the wider population.
One feature of political-based socio-economic thievery is that there is often no public announcement explaining or apologizing for misappropriations and no legal charges or punishment levied against the offenders.
Unfortunately, this sounds very much like some people in high political positions that we know. The definition sounds very much like behaviour wielded by Trump and our very own Doug Ford.
They say this sort of shocking thing mainly only happens in third world countries, but now they are calling it: “creeping kleptocracy” and it is creeping in here.
Christy Doraty,
Fergus