Peru's crisis is a cautionary tale for democracies | CNN
Peru is seeing some of its worst political violence in recent decades, but the grievances of protesters are all but new; they reflect a system that has failed to deliver for over twenty years.
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Is Democracy as an idea in trouble or has it always been in trouble?
Democracy is an ideal state of government right? That is until your populace split down the middle, both sides or multiple groups decide that cheat to win is the path to domination And personal advantage. The issue there is that corruption of standards where a self serving group can achieve advantages over another can happen in any system of governance.
The United States is as broken as it has even been, at least in my lifetime. That said, is there an alternative that could strive to offer civil and equal rights to everyone, achieving a balance between respecting personal freedoms and understanding that ultimate personal freedom is not realistically possible in the group dynamic? In other words the more people that live in close proximity to one another, the less freedom you will have. That is inevitable. You should not be able to project your personal standard onto others outside of your personal dwelling and even that has limits based on group moral standards.
You know I like ragging on the predominant Christian movements in the US, mostly evangelicals and this probably applies to Islam across the vast majority of the world, that when humans start pretending-fantasizing that there is a supreme being that encompasses and dictates morality, this is where the live and live standard takes a major hit, when human mouth piece assume the role of divine truth sayer, while making up their self serving shit as they go along, for fun, power, and control and in many cases these mouth pieces have their own dirty little secrets they hide away in the closet.
I find it very revealing and disturbing that these kinds of POS, who are not religious, or moral other than self servingly corrupt seem to be emerging and finding a home in today’s Republican Party. Donald Trump is or was the King of mentally ill, uneducated, stupid, self servingly and totally corrupt. Everything he touched withered. The GOP as a whole is not much better as long as they allow this kind of rot to control their group. Yet, the list of malfeasance get’s longer by the year, to our Nation’s detriment.
But as I’ve always said, the real issue here is pick your poison and the self serving, delving in fantasy, want their cake and eat it to, Koolaid drinkers back home that is totally focused on ME>WE.