Leave your country if it's not perfect
I have to weigh in on the controversy over the CBC host who told a conservative blogger to "leave Canada" if he did not like government decisions.
Deliberative democracy is the idea that a political system is legitimate if it involves enough thought and discussion of the issues by the people, and representation of their views in government. The majority win, but there is a theory of justice so the majority cannot abuse other people (mind you they can steal and redistribute property, but the democratic deliberation sanctions this).
The "left wing" journalist said, "I didn't want to pay for the Viet Nam war, so I left. Consider it a fair trade." So the conservative blogger can just shut up now, he went through the process of deliberative democracy, the people spoke, and what was decided must be right. Right?
At the Conservative Party of Canada policy convention last weekend, delegates engaged in deliberative democracy. They watered down some policies, threw others out, and kept the ones they calculated would help them seize power.
Wikipedia explainsthat deliberative democracy is usually associated with the left. Conservatives explain that the media is usually associated with the left. The whole left/right analogy is flawed, even though we all use it. Canadian 'Conservatives' are just as confident that deliberative democracy can work as the left is. Yet they think there is somehow a difference in how they govern, and that the media are left for not recognizing this.
Most members of the mainstream media understand, as most voters do, that they should be skeptical about politics. Politicians claim they want power so they expropriate property that was earned by others, and distribute it according to principles of 'justice' and their well-nigh infallible system of democracy.
I sense decline.
Deliberative democracy is the idea that a political system is legitimate if it involves enough thought and discussion of the issues by the people, and representation of their views in government. The majority win, but there is a theory of justice so the majority cannot abuse other people (mind you they can steal and redistribute property, but the democratic deliberation sanctions this).
The "left wing" journalist said, "I didn't want to pay for the Viet Nam war, so I left. Consider it a fair trade." So the conservative blogger can just shut up now, he went through the process of deliberative democracy, the people spoke, and what was decided must be right. Right?
At the Conservative Party of Canada policy convention last weekend, delegates engaged in deliberative democracy. They watered down some policies, threw others out, and kept the ones they calculated would help them seize power.
Wikipedia explainsthat deliberative democracy is usually associated with the left. Conservatives explain that the media is usually associated with the left. The whole left/right analogy is flawed, even though we all use it. Canadian 'Conservatives' are just as confident that deliberative democracy can work as the left is. Yet they think there is somehow a difference in how they govern, and that the media are left for not recognizing this.
Most members of the mainstream media understand, as most voters do, that they should be skeptical about politics. Politicians claim they want power so they expropriate property that was earned by others, and distribute it according to principles of 'justice' and their well-nigh infallible system of democracy.
I sense decline.
posted by HD at
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