After reading the text Chile 2030, there are several previous findings, as initial assessment, you can set overall.
The first and most important challenge is democratic political and civic institutions. Without that, the rest is futile discussion because everything is related to the topic of democracy, in terms the need for counterweights to corporate and political power, so clearly related. In that I agree with Lagos, but he also was part of that partnership at the time.
is required to distribute political power, not concentrate it at parties, the ruling government and warlords finger taxes and corporate friends. Should decentralize power. Decision making and economic policies should be relevant to citizens in their communities, cities and regions.
Therefore, a determining factor is the strengthening of democratic institutions all levels, and that role is not just political parties but of citizens. And see what happens in Florida where democracy has been defeated on all sides.
For something not mentioned in its letter Ricardo Lagos, is that the political elites themselves-those who make decisions from political parties and political power are a factor of inequality, political and economic. Although egalitarians say in their speeches.
Because the hard reality is that, while those who take political decisions, central and local level, continue providing all kinds of privileges for themselves and their friends, is difficult to make progress on any of the items proposed, or avoid political imposition of particular interests through the political and corporate lobbying for rights of other ordinary citizens have no real power.
For this reason, while not constituting a highly competitive electoral system, including: balances on the power, the election of governors and mayors, the ability to remove bad rulers that prevent guaranteed quotas for coalitions and barter arrangements between elites and brazen, it makes no sense to establish a compulsory voting registration covered in automatically.
compulsory voting, without avoiding the previous problems, it will convert to ordinary citizens, prisoners of the prevailing corporate political elites, and further strengthen the ruling party-that will compete with the public interest .
We must be honest enough to distinguish an effective democracy in a pseudo democracy. Chile has the elements to develop the first courses of action, increasing self-expression values \u200b\u200band a minimum set of democratic institutions. Lack of political will of elites and citizens.
Because the citizen's duty is to protect democracy from its various institutions and instruments, not to protect the political elite. If the elite representatives are mediocre or away from their constituencies, the duty and right of the citizen is not voting for them, and encourage new leadership beyond party even. Voting is a democratic not a democratic duty.
For all this process, we need new spaces and leadership beyond the traditional elites, and autonomous citizens, independent, self-expression values \u200b\u200b(read: Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehar) ready to demand the power, and not just party faithful, leaders and political leaders.
The task is complex in that regard.
is clear that the text lacks the How ...
To answer it, the first thing to do is to encourage and further strengthen democratic institutions and yet extend the debate beyond political parties and the leaders of the day ... the citizens are called to reply the how, through constant and open democratic dialogue, which is the basis of politics.
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