About current democracy and politics - you deserve what you get

So everyone has an opinion and more important she/he can express it within the scope of our constitution.
This is a basic pillar of our democratic system, for which our ancestors have fighted for centuries and we surely do not want to miss that. The same is valid for our votes, which are counted equally for every citizen from a specific age.
No discussion about that.
So in most countries for decades, in some of them for many years and in a few unfortunately still not the case, the people do have the power to define the government. Every couple of years the electors are asked to vote for parties and/or candidates from whom they think that they will be the best choice to lead the countries affairs and define/change laws.
There are slightly different democratic systems in different countries, but they all do have in common, that people vote and thereby provide the conditions which the parties need to follow to set-up the government.
Most people use the power they are given and do follow the ballot and some others just refuse to vote. But irrespective of their refusal to vote they will need to follow future governments decisions too. The voters having voted for the parties/candidates that wil not be part of a government are essentially in the same situation and need to accept that the party/candidate they have voted for will need to go into opposition.
In short democratic countries get the government and presidents they have voted for or in other words they get the ones they deserve.
Thus in dictatorial countries like North Corea, we cannot blame the people for their government, but in democratic countries we can.

Looking at the political situation in many countries from Americas via Europe to Asia one tendency is to be realised. The voters have blown up the longtime existing political class and have decided to drift to parties/candidates who previously wouldn‘t have been considered as an option at all. Previous conventions appear not to be too relevant anymore.
This reminds somehow at a quote of G.K.Chestertons in the early 20th century: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
The conclusion is not necessarily to believe in god or in our case to vote again for the established parties/candidates.
But looking at the situation of these voters, it becomes clear that they are not starving or suffering from violence or militant acts and would never start a civil war like in the middle of the last century. They are mostly frustrated protest voters fighting against the establishment. Sayings like the upper establishment does what they want, no matter who we had voted earlier for. Others with the support of social media, which makes it easy to find people with the same ideas, enjoy the new freedom of being able to vote for the “others“. The detailed content and skills of the parties/candidates take a back seat and are no longer the main decision criteria. Simplified nationalist slogans as “Americans to buy american products“ or “We will establish a cutoff for the number of immigrants“ make sense to these voters and are more efficient as the party platform that do not reach most of the voters anymore. And the newly elected president does not necessarily have to be the brightest head on earth. Reaching and convincing the voter is all that counts. This is a new reality in democracy that previously was not imagined to happen in most of our minds. But we are still living in democracy and this is a part of it. If we asked the others who just used their right to vote, we would most probably get an angry look and asked why we complain about what they have voted as free person. And they are legally absolutely right, no discussion.
But there is the other side of the coin that I am trying to emphasize, the ethical side.
The result of these elections is that the societies and common values are getting more and more divided.
As a collective our world has never been doing better and the biggest danger is not a foreign enemy or a group of terrorists. The biggest danger is rather the demolition of existing international agreements by returning to foreground purely national interests and thereby accepting the destruction of our environment.

Pandora’s box is open and the voters cannot be blamed for what they have voted for. What we need is a new era and atmosphere of community, nationally and internationally. The voters will react to that, they will always do.

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