Democratorship, liberal oligarchy, participative democracy, dictocracy, plutocracy…
What name can we give to a reference model that has nourished so many hopes and which is seeing so many abuses?
Democracy is dead – long live democracy!
If democracy must evolve because it has failed to convince its people, it is to be hoped that politics won’t be satisfied with its death-throes. Searching for itself, democracy has been fighting since antiquity to preserve the individual and collective liberty of mankind, while respecting each and every one.
What a magnificent gift! Yet it has been baffled, corrupted, and violated. Failing to take the human factor into account, its power too attractive to be relinquished, all its weaknesses have been exploited. We demand every right but fail to uphold our duties. We’ve explored every facet of our freedom of expression but we’re left with populism. We’ve made use of all the collective dreams in order to construct ideologies. We’ve sacrificed political courage on the altar of a pernicious consensus. We’ve allowed power to falsify reality and push the line to the border of falsehood. We’ve created a false hedonism to keep people’s minds busy. Democracy has become a grotesque human comedy.
This is the essence of what we refuse to see:
the danger is to feel safe in this precarious and limited space while maintaining its fragile balance. The true mission of democracy is essentially to protect people from themselves. And that of people is to ceaselessly re-think it… for only when they have lost it will they then understand the extent of their loss.
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