"Democracy is a scam, is the perfect dictatorship. We choose between two dictators, one smiling and one that growls. Both have the same bosses. They have turned the election in an act of allegiance to the regime. And if after their propaganda campaigns multimedia not swallow, you get sent to the riot and go. I do not know when we will take this, really do not know "
In Essay on the lucidity , Saramago fabled about the consequences of a group of citizens decided to exercise individually their right to vote blank in response to the absence of a policy proposal with which they felt represented. A reaction of citizens who uncovered two issues: on one hand the disaffection of the citizens with their political and trust the other hand, despite all, in democracy as a form of political organization of a state. The act of voting in the story exemplified the belief of citizens in the act as a means of political participation in public life to reverse the course of things.
admit, as it can not be otherwise, that democracy is the system least bad political organization that have and given that the political class appears among the three major issues of concern to the public according to recent surveys of CIS, we do not understand how it is possible to continue with the ritual act, often solemn, to return the polls when elections are called. How is it possible to the current bleak outlook continue voting citizen? Why moral obligation? Why hope for change? Why loyalty stands for a game? Why in the background the city participates in the liturgy in which politics has become today? The dilemma is greater when we realize that the general public has been abandoned for some time their civic responsibilities. Individualism, consumerism and conservatism of the middle classes installed in comfort, have helped to clear the critical capacity of the city, numbed by the comforts of a lifestyle based on well-being and hedonism. At this juncture it is at least singular that the city continue going to the polls. Will it solve some alternation in power when we are facing a crisis whose dimension is not only economic but also social and environmental? From our point of view only be achieved by incubating the next downturn in the economic coming of the false crisis by socializing losses and undermining an environment and battered by itself.
It was disappointing to detect in the current political landscape, not just the incompetence to resolve a critical economic situation by the elected government but the complete lack of alternatives to an opposition that seems more fitted to receive the command of the country through the deepening of the crisis to earn with their own proposals. But what's really frustrating is to see how a leftist government finally abandoned leftist politics to embrace a right-wing economic policy priority based on spending cuts in front of boosting economic growth. If, as suggested by all surveys, PP regains power in the next general election, will deepen the neo-liberal measures to end the crisis. Measures are already being taken in European countries like France, England or Germany. This confirms that the right remains right and the left is looking more and more to the right. An overview that explores the lack of alternatives and the lack ideological diversity in the proposals for a democratic system installed on bipartisanship. When policy alternatives are invariable the essence of democracy is affected.
particular point is what happens in the Canaries. Rupture of the coalition pact. Canary Coalition absolute rule half a year in formal minority being the third political force in number of votes. A severed left its most critical sector by imposing managers. And a vibrant social movement whose demands have not been picked up by any political party.
We must accept that representative democracies today have degenerated into party politics where political parties are what make the agenda. Today the power lies not in the collective will of the people who can only aspire to influence the shift, the power is in political parties. The total lack of proportionality in the current electoral system, the reduction of citizen participation in public affairs that most affect a mere bureaucratic procedure, the taboo of the time to clarify the funding of political parties and excessive collusion between economic and political power as a result has been evident corruption are just some examples of the degradation of democracy. The really critical of this system, the really revolutionary with a political system dominated by a plutocracy is abstinence, not to go to election day to uncover this sham of representative democracy in which we live. But one abstention understood as a reaction a public weary of a political class degraded. The public must recover block the mood of failure, critical capacity, ultimately disobedience as a way of turning a company before drifting. It would be interesting to know what the reaction of our political class to an election with an abstention rate of more than 50%. Urge
think as soon as possible to the principles which should guide the long term, the society of the future, what kind of institutional structures must represent these principles and what strategies can help break through the route to a new stage fairer economic, social and environmentally. A reflection to a greater or lesser extent already taking place within social movements. It seems that none of the major parties are concerned about any of these issues.
Photo 1: The Earth Blog Cytisus
Photo 2: In the blog Karbolarium
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