The first is that only governments can change the world for the better but… They won’t act unless and until they are PUSHED to do so by informed public opinion, by manifestations of real democracy in action. The problem here is that most citizens of most if not all nations are too uninformed and misinformed about critical issues TO DO PUSHING. And that’s why I assert that real democracy exists NOWHERE in the world. Real democracy is about much more than voting every few years to confirm a government in office or change it. For real democracy to exist the citizens of nations, the voters, have to be informed enough about critical issues to call and hold their governments to account, not only at election time but any time and all the time. Because they are not informed enough to do that, I say that what we have throughout the Western world and elsewhere is the FRAMEWORK of democracy but NOT THE SUBSTANCE.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:37:11 +0000
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