The election in Peru and the month with the mayor of La Florida, have many things in common, the main, reflect that the policy remains mired in an old question but futile Who should govern?
Monday, April 11, 2011
Missionary With Wrapping Legs Around
ELECTION IN PERU AND THE FLORIDA, THE SAME DILEMMA OF POWER NETWORKS
The election in Peru and the month with the mayor of La Florida, have many things in common, the main, reflect that the policy remains mired in an old question but futile Who should govern?
The election in Peru and the month with the mayor of La Florida, have many things in common, the main, reflect that the policy remains mired in an old question but futile Who should govern?
There is an old but ever present dilemma, the paradox of Liberty Plato used as an argument against democracy, which is related to what happens if voters elect a majority of a dictator ruling, or choose to have an authoritarian regime through free elections.
dilemma has to do with what Popper called the theory of sovereignty, which presumes that political power is or should be free of all control, and that raises the question most ancient and useless political thought Who should govern?
For centuries that question has prevailed in politics, emphasizing "wrongly" in those who exercise the government, leaving out an essential element on which institutions enable citizens to protect themselves from a bad ruler and remove him if necessary, avoiding bloodshed.
This enhanced or less emphasis on checks and balances on power, is what distinguishes a democracy from tyranny. Also to see when a democratic system or at least trying to establish itself suffers a reversal.
The election in Peru, where the candidate leading the polls, Ollanta Humala has, but says it no longer a clear speech-chauvinist, statist war and therefore should not leave anyone indifferent this regard.
For taking into account the possible choices are bound to be one doubt Peru's democratic institutions, provides guarantees to its citizens to the potential arrival of an evil ruler chosen for themselves? Is there strong checks and balances on the ruling? I do not know.
I personally am concerned about the rise of Humala in two aspects, not only because throughout history who have risen to political power with that kind of ultra-nationalist discourse, though it soften for elections - has been destructive to democracy, individual liberty and the rights of individuals, but also because the Peruvian voters appear to endorse it as a democratically viable option.
is the dilemma of freedom platonic. Citizens have the right and freedom to choose. The risk and the question is whether after that election does not put at risk their own freedom.
And what has this to do with the show in Florida? Florida lives Platonic dilemma firsthand.
Florida and its neighbors are locked in the same question - Who should govern? more than a month. And this plot indicates that our local democracy does not deliver the institutional means to Impeach citizens re-elect bad leaders and their representatives again. Do not have an institutional framework that protects them from bad representatives, mayors and councilors are, to capture power for themselves personally or collectively.
And so today we are still at the mercy of the criterion of a few members of a municipal council, unable to exercise any control over them, and no power to change their representatives to vote, is that a peaceful manner.
The council members themselves, both as Alliance the Concertación a clearly authoritarian attitudes are locked in the question 'Who should rule?
In both sectors, and clearly so proud, without consulting the electorate, are considered the most likely to do so. That is the axis of the dispute and the stillness that keeps Florida without mayor.
is, taking advantage of the lack of democratic institutions, the representatives themselves denied the right to exercise democracy to their citizens, while they are beaten in a duel for power.
As Karl Popper said, "If not placed the preservation of democracy over all other considerations ... latent anti-democratic trends that never fail may cause the downfall of democracy."
So the focus from which policy should be addressed to save or strengthen democracy relates to ask what institutions guarantee us or protect us from bad leaders?
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