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What Is Killing Democracy?

Why doesn't the will of the people prevail?

By Peter RosePublished 5 years ago 4 min read
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Dishonest politicians and their controllers, in every nations bureaucracy, are actively trying to stop democratic decisions from being enacted.

The leader of the socialist party in Britain is reported to have claimed that if he becomes Prime Minister he will create jobs in an area that lost thousands of places of work, with the closure of some steel factories. He claimed he would reverse the closures ordered by Mrs Thatcher when she was in power. The closures took place before Mrs Thatcher came to power and the government at the time of closure was a socialist one. So this is deceit, which is either deliberate or shows a very undesirable lack of concern for truth.

It is reported that a senior British Labour party member (who opposes Britain leaving the EU) was asked, “if there was a second referendum and it also voted leave; would she accept it.” She said no. Some years ago the Irish government was forced, by the EU, to hold repeated referendums on the same question, until the result suited the bureaucracy in the EU; then the subject was closed for ever. In England even more years ago, the liberal left forced a debate every year, on the ending of capital punishment in Britain. Every year the vote was to keep the ultimate deterrent. Then one year the vote was to abolish. The subject was then closed, never to be debated or questioned again, even when terrorism started multiple killings and public opinion was known to favour a return of the death penalty for such acts, it was not allowed to be debated.

These are the events that are destroying democracy. The willingness of politicians and the resident unelected mangers of the nations bureaucracy; to decide what they want and then join to manipulate and manoeuvre the systems of government, until they get what they want and then shut down all further debate. It does appear, from history, that it is a combination of “liberal” and socialists have become the worst offenders. In Britain the leave EU referendum has made it it self evident, that the elite who run the bureaucracy and its public mouthpieces, the BBC and the loss making Guardian news paper; really believe they are always correct and the mass of the people hold views which they, the elite, can not accept as being valid. They are disdainful and dismissive of public opinion, even to the level of turning the term a “populist movement” into something derogatory.

There are always rumours and conspiracy theories, about a group of the worlds most wealthy, the owners of banks and the media, the controllers of manufacture and distribution; on global scales, who manipulate and coerce governments in ways that will suit their own narrow interests. Some of the "allegedly fact based fiction" regarding activities of the CIA and mercenaries in South American nations, do seem to be linked to wealth generation for a select few in the USA. Whilst there is little hard evidence of this, history again indicates that some events have been directed to a certain purpose. In the lead up to the second world war, Hitler and what was initially called a socialist party, gained power by using what seemed at the time, to be disconnected events, to gain absolute power. The first world war was started by using an assignation as a pretext and there are many suggestions this was in fact a coordinated manipulation of opinions.

Such direct physical manipulation must be more difficult in our modern time of multiple media and mass public communication, which makes it harder to control all the information reaching the public. But it is not harder to control the actions resulting from information. Action is still in the hands of a few. If democracy is to survive we must ensure democracy controls the actions, not just the votes. The will of the majority must result in action, not in endless prevarication and delay and constant reappraisals, which are designed to frustrate the democratic purpose.

Obviously if we had only honest politicians and bureaucracies that genuinely served the will of the people, all would be well, but it is unlikely either of these will come about unless there are radical changes. The American system of a newly elected government causing a new appointed executive administration; would seem to be once answer but America, while better than Britain in this respect, still does not seem to overcome bureaucratic inertia. So many committees and political deals, so many interstate agreements, appear to those of us outside USA; to water down any policy that was voted for by the majority of voters.

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Peter Rose

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