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RE: Adsactly Education - 21st Century Democracy
I really hope that the theory that democracies that have all the pillars necessary in place are self correcting. As time goes on I find that hope to be dimming.
I think all the democracies in the world face a pressure that is much more than they ever have. I am still hopeful that they can be saved, but am certainly not certain that it will be so.
Hi @bigtom13 I think we need to recognize that the world is diverse, and there will be diverse models of governance around the world. Some of them will be more liberal and more democratic. Some of them will be more illiberal. Some of them may be authoritarian for a period of time. What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union was the idea that socialism was built on “scientific foundations” laid down by Marx and Engels and was ready to be used by everyone around this world. And when this didn’t happen, people started having doubts.
I think we’re seeing sustained and rather astonishing demand for democracy all over the world.
Democracy should be a verb, and not a noun. Democracy isn't this thing that gets created once and that’s it. All of us have to be actively engaged.
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I like that. Democracy should be a verb. An ever changing, ever evolving action.
Hi @bigtom13 That's right!!
A constitutional democracy is not a kingdom, aristocracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, autocracy, theocracy, etc. Knowing what it is not is arguably part-way to knowing what it is.
Constitutional democracy is a transcendent Idea deduced over thousands of years of countless questions, not all of them thoughtful, and even more answers, not all of them truthful. Indeed, this Idea denotes or points to or "calls into being" a sort of learning organism that facilitates evolving awareness of achievable goals distinguishing gradations of plausible from implausible, thoughtful from thoughtless, likely from unlikely, just from unjust. Constitutional democracy learns from many sources, including its mistakes, including (perhaps) yours and mine.
The origins and evolution of the transcendent Idea of constitutional democracy as an embodiment of Ordered Liberty and the Rule of Law is a fascinating and instructive story in its own right.
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