The paradoxes of democracy.

The paradoxes of democracy. 

The paradox problem with democracy is that thing is the greatest threat for itself. The problem is that democracy is a thing, what unites people, and lets them involve in the decision-making process, makes that thing one of the biggest threat for mankind. 

In a democracy, the majority is making decisions. And the thing is that the majority can start to bully minorities because in their opinion the majority have this kind of rights, and that is one argument of the Ku Klux Klan. Why minorities must be listening when we are making laws and power is in our hands? This is the argument, what the KKK uses in their campaigns.  Democracy and freedom of speech are things, that are many times misused. 

Freedom of speech is tolerated, but only when it supports the opinions of klansmen. And if the person has a different opinion, that brings the burning cross in the yard or shotgun shot through the window. They believe that the majority has the right to do everything, that they want. The problem is that sometimes people don't think, what they are doing. 

And what makes democracy the threat? The thing is populism. The term populism is the term which means that the persons, who offer simple and easy-looking solutions for complicated problems are getting very big popularity in the political field. And here we must say that every politician is somehow populist. 

The thing that makes populists very popular is that they are always asking people, what they want. There is nothing wrong with that kind of thing to make politics. At this point we are facing things, that populism is always the term, what is used in a political language, when some new party is coming in the political field. Or some other political movement is more popular than its political movement. And parties are always political movements. When the times are good, the freedoms are given. 

And that would sometimes cause the need to strengthen control when somebody goes too far with liberties. When somebody misuses liberty, that thing causes need to discuss the liberties, and what can stop this misuse. So at this point, I must ask, what is the description of misuse? Is that only the opposite opinion? But at this point, I must say, that nobody has to tolerate things like a personal threat.  

So the problem is, how to describe populism? 

The truth is that the political movement must always be somehow popular. The representatives of the political movements must promise something, what would please people. And if we want to make politics, we can always promise people "blood, sweat, and tears", as Winston Churchill promised in 1940. But the time was different than in the year 1940. The world was in the war, and this made that time special. 

But you can give those promises today when society is in peace. Would you believe that promises about "blood, sweat, and tears" would bring the votes in the next elections? Churchill argued that promise by the war. But what if the argument is the members of the parliament must get luxuries?  Like expensive holidays or something like that. Would that kind of thing be the thing, what brings the votes to that political movement? 

Everyday politics is like everyday life. It is boring. 

The problem with political nationalistic movements is that those movements are portraying their agenda to be higher or bigger than everyday politics. The thing that they offer is nationalistic heroism and that kind of thing is a very powerful tool in the road to independence. But sooner or later the condition in the state is normalizing. And then the grey weekdays are coming in politics. 

The problem with this kind of thing is boring. In everyday politics, guns are not blazing. The thing that the politicians and their assistants are looking at is the boring-looking books about the budgets. That means money storages, and needs for the investments. Even if the purpose of the government is to prepare for war there are many other things, where the money must invest. But at this moment I must say, that the best day in the state is a boring day. When nothing bad happens is the thing, that everybody hopes. 

The highways, railroads, and other kinds of things need repair, even if the main topics are in the military equipment. Or otherwise, the military forces must use footpaths. And in this very old example, the state lives between wars and for the wars. Everyday politics is dirty because it's boring. And most of the people are working in boring places. The highly trained people like medical doctors, economists, engineers, lawyers and other kinds of so-call regular people like virologists are going in the office, and staring the boring-looking screens or make boring looking reports. And politicians are making decisions on how many of those people are needed?

But what is politics? 

Simple politics is to make decisions on how to share money in the state. This is the primary role in the government. The problem is that the money storage is always limited. And there are many targets, where the money must share. Here we must remember that every one of us wants to get big money but the problem with that kind of thing is that there are also many other people, who want money. 

But honest people say that they would like a couple of million to their bank accounts. I would have a couple of things what to do with that money, but there are also many other people, who have something to do with that kind of thing, and this makes sharing money problematic. When we are talking about individual people we must remember that every each city, company, or other unit is acting as an individual human in society, and maximize their benefit.