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Can the retreat of democracy be reversed? : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir, published 23/11/2021I do not expect revolutionary and immediate measures to be adopted at the summit to save democracies from their rapid erosion in so many countries.
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But if they managed that atrocity in Europe, then no wonder European parties support gun control.
In a democracy, changes to a national constitution can only be done by plebiscite, usually requiring a very clear majority of support. Somehow the elites have disenfranchised the populations of entire nations and now demand submission to whatever definition of "human rights" that they choose to define. Bugger that.
Thank God that first Britain, and now Poland, is standing up to these new European authoritarians. The other East Europeans nations are not far emulating Poland, as these countries already have experience in being subjugated by a monolithic bully that tried to impose it's will on their resisting populations.
The threat to democracy comes from elitist bureaucrats, academics, and a fake news press employing "journalists" like Alon ben Meir who prosper by pushing the elitist woke agenda, to curry favour with their rich corporate employers.
Identity politics will kill democracy. Which is exactly what the socialist left want. They dream of a supposedly utopian society like China, where the "intelligent" people like themselves get to tell the dummies, who make up the rest of the population, what to do. That so many rich people see advantages in such a system for themselves, is probably because they are dumb enough to think, that by hook or by crook, somehow they will end up seizing the reins of power from the ideologues.