An excellent read

[Taliv]

Nobody Understands Democracy Anymore

Book after book in recent years has alerted us—as if we couldn’t tell by reading the news and absorbing the panicked media—that democracy is in crisis. Did it start with Trump or with Brexit? In Europe or the U.S.? The diagnosis varies among authors of different backgrounds and political...

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Particularly good towards the latter 1/3rd

 

[Ashoka]

Interesting, until it got the better of me. Even my attention span is finite.

 

[Jeff White]

Democracy can only work when it’s held in check by a constitution that limits the government and when the people respect the constitution enough to uphold it over their baser desires. This worked in the US from ratification of the constitution until 1913 when we started fundamentally changing it.

Now we don’t even bother with amending the constitution. We simply pass laws that anyone who passed freshman civics (back in the day when the schools still taught things like that) can tell you are unconstitutional. I don’t suppose any form of government can last very long before human nature corrupts it beyond recognition.

The author has no understanding of what brought on the crisis in democracy. It was brought on by the deliberate dividing of societies into groups that can be pitted against each other for political gain. It was brought on by the blatant attempt to erase national identities. Multiculturalism is completely against human nature.

There is no crisis in democracy. The people are merely speaking out against the plans the political class has for them. At least this “crisis” has been relatively peaceful. One could say that with the Brexit vote and the Trump election that democracy is working as intended.

I suppose that could be considered a crisis if you are watching your globalist desires for a one world government utopia thwarted at the ballot box.