Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 0:49:09 GMT -5
Citizens feel that they are called to vote and that then political leaders make arbitrary decisions with their backs turned to the citizens. Ultimately they make the decisions they want. In the Italian political system candidates are not even chosen by the citizens but by their party colleagues and the citizens are forced to accept what the parties have decided. . It is in this sense that I speak of recitive democracy. Now it is important to highlight that the democratic method prevails unlike what happened until when fascist and national socialist movements denied the very principle of popular sovereignty. Or unlike communist regimes which preached the principle of the sovereignty of the proletariat but which in the end supported totalitarian dictatorships.
Today all parties and also the socalled populist Russia Mobile Number List recognize this principle and in fact refer directly to it . Evidently this type of appeal to direct dialogue between the masses and the people can constitute a challenge to liberal democracy as we see in cases of Eastern Europe in Putins Russia in Recep Tayyip Erdoans Turkey. But that doesnt make them fascists. You cannot be a fascist and appeal to popular sovereignty.
It would be like being a Bolshevik defending private property. Therefore the main risks of democracy emerge from democracy itself. I repeat we must not forget that democracy as a method bases its action on the purpose and objective of achieving something more the democratic ideal. Without that ideal we have a recitative democracy in which indeed racist nationalist illiberal majorities can occur. If the realization of the democratic ideal is abandoned and democracy is just a recitation the development of the individual is hindered without any kind of fascist regime. Therefore to avoid the election of racist sexist illiberal governments what it is about is that democracy is not limited to the democratic method but rather pursues the democratic ideal. Let me ask you one last question associated with your own career as a historian.
Today all parties and also the socalled populist Russia Mobile Number List recognize this principle and in fact refer directly to it . Evidently this type of appeal to direct dialogue between the masses and the people can constitute a challenge to liberal democracy as we see in cases of Eastern Europe in Putins Russia in Recep Tayyip Erdoans Turkey. But that doesnt make them fascists. You cannot be a fascist and appeal to popular sovereignty.
It would be like being a Bolshevik defending private property. Therefore the main risks of democracy emerge from democracy itself. I repeat we must not forget that democracy as a method bases its action on the purpose and objective of achieving something more the democratic ideal. Without that ideal we have a recitative democracy in which indeed racist nationalist illiberal majorities can occur. If the realization of the democratic ideal is abandoned and democracy is just a recitation the development of the individual is hindered without any kind of fascist regime. Therefore to avoid the election of racist sexist illiberal governments what it is about is that democracy is not limited to the democratic method but rather pursues the democratic ideal. Let me ask you one last question associated with your own career as a historian.