DRAWING FOR SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF CHOCOLATES AND BURKE While carrying out an interesting debate about voting and citizenship , proposed to overcome the political office, that is, using a mechanism used in the old Athenian democracy to improve our elitist democracy and oligopolistic.
As expected, the idea that antibodies generated more support, because some conservative aura surrounding the election mechanism, and the polysemic nature of the concept of democracy that takes us from a conception as simple majority government, even a concept as institutional counterweights to power.
The proposal - which is debate - was not questioned in depth untested high democratic implication is that such a mechanism, and their contributions to unlock and help breathing choked democracy elitism and party politics. Because of that, I decided to write this first reflection-proposal.
DEMOCRACY AS Stat Quo
Based on the essential, now just an open-faced anti-democracy - though statistics say otherwise before -. Everyone seems to understand what Churchill said that "democracy is the worst system of government designed by man. With the exception of all others. " That's already a good sign, but not enough. Why?
Because even though no one ideal openly discussed as an authoritarian system, few define democracy in concrete ways. Most simply relates the concept to elections and voting, adding even in many cases, schedules abstract contradict basic criteria to speak of democracy.
Concepts such as separation of powers, equality before the law, civil and political rights, institutional controls to power, federalism, or mechanisms such as plebiscites and referendums and recall, some sound like exclusives, including anti- democracy, or terms academicians. The same goes for the draw for positions. For many, it seems impossible and even ridiculous.
In the above, there is some conservative stance with regard to democracy, especially when faced mechanisms democratic unconventional, which a priori are considered risky or impractical.
He forgets that the same bias operating when proposing universal suffrage or voting rights for women. However, in light of the facts, it is clear that the objections contravened the perfect character of democracy as a system (now raised to deny anyone the right to vote to women and universal suffrage).
We then see that democracy is not just the act of voting and choose, but a kind of status is open to peaceful change, improved, not only should support a democratic electoral and political system that respects basic rights of individuals, but in a democratic society, open to debate. An open society in all respects. All this makes the difference with the closed societies which prevents the free development of individuals to promote authoritarianism and dominance of certain leaders - some octogenarians - supported by collectivism, tribal, superstition or magic.
While our societies and democracies are more open than those systems, remain certain superstitions relating to political power. Thus, even when posed liberal revolutions break with the old monarchical regime and its founding principles, as I said Rudolf Rocker, our democracies are still operating under the old monarchical principle, which reproduced the enlightened despotism.
is not strange then that the elections are carried out as a vertical ritual, based on a superstition: the claim alleged leaders and representatives exceptional qualities that no one would have to govern. That superstition is invariable, it is called people's democracy, socialist, liberal or representative.
No is also not uncommon for those same leaders, elites derivatives, take this as a truth, and see ordinary people, voters, as part of a body incapable of governing themselves and know their own purposes, to be guided as flock, to be illuminated, even forced to be free-even the tiniest decisions.
That is elitist and paternalistic logic that prevails in a surreptitious manner in our democracy.
We see that one condition of our current incoherent democracies is their profound elitism, heir to the old despotism, promoted both by elites, who are wary of citizens, as citizens, who distrust themselves.
Our democracy is incongruous, because the political discourse and calls for democratic citizenship, decision-making capacity, and the importance of their input and participation in public affairs in the practice citizens face barriers to entry formal and informal, which are relegated and excluded, by agents of the political arena of decision-making at all levels.
Barriers input not only as to the possibility to run for elected office but also in the internal organization of political parties. That is, all the democratic, electoral and party is elitist and does not promote citizenship, but that mere electoral discipline. Obviously, the elites denies this.
SWEEPSTAKES IS MORE DEMOCRATIC
The draw for positions, which even Aristotle suggested, "is a chance of breaking this stato quo, as it allows to break the barriers of entry formal and informal prevailing in our current democracy. As Montesquieu said: "The suffrage by lot is in the nature of democracy, the voting by choice is that of the aristocracy"
Set the draw means to strengthen control mechanisms and limitations on the actual exercise of power, including the removal of veto. Competition policy and quality would rise because access charges would depend on chance and not popular forms that can be enforced by bribery.
There would be a Demarquía Where those who hold government positions are selected at random, the manner of the jury in some court systems. This would avoid the fact that, as Thomas Jefferson said, "Every government degenerates when trusted only to the leaders of the people." ( THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia, XIV issue. Autobiography and other writings. Editorial Tecnos, 1987. Translated by A. Escohotado and M. Sáenz de Heredia).
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