Dear Editor, We here in the Far West live in a virtual corpocracy and oligarchy, regardless of who’s elected prime minister or president. Leaders are elected via the first-past-the-post ballot system, which enables an insidiously covert rule by way of potently manipulative/persuasive corporate and big-monied lobbyists. While the FPTP system may technically qualify as being democratic within the democracy spectrum, it’s still particularly democra…