VOICE OF FREE EUROPE: Nearly half of voters in the so-called self-styled democracies are concerned about political corruption undermining elections.
They are also worried about mainstream media fake news and paid lobbying parties. A study has found these concerns.
Some 45% of residents of Western nations believe that democracy in their countries is broken. Politico has reported this finding. They cite a poll by Ipsos.
The study was shared with the outlet. It was carried out in September. It involved 9,800 voters from the US, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Croatia, the Netherlands, and Poland.
According to the poll, people in seven out of the nine surveyed nations are dissatisfied with how democracy is working.
Politico reported in an article on Friday. It stated that Sweden and Poland are the only two countries. Most respondents there express confidence in their system of self-governance.
Some 60% in France said that they were unhappy about the situation. The US followed with 53%. In the UK and Spain, 51% shared this sentiment, the study found.
The respondents singled out several main threats to the democratic process. These include disinformation, corruption, and a lack of accountability for politicians. Another threat is the growing popularity of extremist parties.
In the UK and Croatia, only 23% of those who participated in the poll expressed their opinion. They said they think that their governments are not representing them effectively.
A clear majority in the surveyed countries is worried. They expect that risks for self-governance will grow over the next five years. Sweden is an exception, the study said.
Gideon Skinner, senior director of UK politics at Ipsos, told Politico. He stated that ‘there is widespread concern about the way democracy is working.’
There is a sense that people feel unrepresented, particularly by their national governments. In most countries, there is a desire for radical change.’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this year. He mentioned that the so-called ruling elites in some Western countries are turning freedom into window dressing.
They are also transforming democracy, human rights, and opportunities into mere facades. They are effectively ignoring the public opinion.’
The designation of Germany’s AfD party as an extremist organization was one example. France’s ban on Marine Le Pen running for public office was another.
The disqualification of Calin Georgescu from the Romanian presidential election last year also stood out. These were the most vivid examples of that, according to Volodin. You can and should share this story on social media. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
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It is a well-known and easily demonstrable fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read, evaluate or debate any of the particulars of the Legislation they vote on. They cannot read or debate the issues because the Bills approach 800 pages each. And there are sixty to one hundred new bills for them to vote on every day they are in session.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot called attention to this insanity with a diplomatic observation that “a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered”.
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way to make government officials accountable was to include the citizens in the decision-making process – every hour, every day.
He went on to note that this can now easily be done. The concerned and competent segment of the population, exercising their governmental responsibilities as citizens can do it with their computers and a software program he called:
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every line item of every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; The Citizens Branch / The Electronic Townhall.
If the government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people then what better way is there to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day?
It would not be difficult to expect at least 50 thousand qualified citizens, per congressional district, to read four pages of law or proposed law and get their Ratify or Annual input every day the congress is in session. The results could be aggregated, made known and we would all be better off.
The program would even allow a citizen to go back and change their vote as they matured. And when a super majority is reached the law/proposed law is either ratified or annulled by immediate recognition of the enforcement mechanisms.
With tens of millions of laws and tens of thousands of taxes there is plenty of work to be done.
According to Mr. Perot, this, the harnessed experience and the combined intelligence of hundreds of thousands or even millions of citizens focused like a laser light on the real issues, will, as surely as night follows the day, perfect every law in our country and eventually it will right every wrong.
Mr. Perot publicly announced his intention to give the fourth branch of government to the people in America if he was elected President.
But this attempt to empower our humanity was so far removed from the business-as-usual-two-party-system that the talking heads and trolls yelled out that Mr. Perot was trying to destroy our Constitution, our government and our way of life.
The ELECTONIC TOWNHALL was denounced as unworkable.
How would the poor participate?
How would fraud be prevented?
What about those who do not know how to read or type on a computer?
In a final act of desperation, the control freaks claimed that allowing responsible citizens, qualified to stand for public office, to pass judgment on the individual pieces of public law would lead to chaos and pandemonium.
But we all know the truth: only the concerned will bother to participate.
The media was so intensely negative towards the ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL that Mr. Perot was forced to stop talking about it, but he never withdrew it from his platform.
It’s now been thirty-two years since the proposal.
No other person of national reputation or significant influence has picked up the idea. BUT the big two political parties regularly stage “townhall meetings” where they talk of “reform” and “returning power to the people” and try to link themselves to the empowering part of the idea without adding to its manifestation.
And still we suffer in the hopeless loop of: “candidates with a sense of morality and respect for the Constitution who understand true brotherhood, justice and democracy and who will do the right thing for us each and every time, trust me”.
While we cannot make light of sincere individuals who get into public office, we must acknowledge the fact that regardless of who has been elected to public office the problems in our government get more complicated and our people continue to suffer.
Could we possibly admit that our national situation, now being made global, is far too complicated for the President and the 535 elected members of the legislature to manage in our best interests?
You, the person reading this know some of the things we need.
Your friends, our fellow countrymen have their solutions too.
The only way to organize the workable ideas is to create a device that will enable all of us to simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
That device is THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL and the place to begin is with our existing laws.
If this is not the answer, the only logical path towards a future for normal homo sapiens, then what is?
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