True democracy in this day and age was always meant to be a balance between conservatism and liberalism.
The US constitution surprised the world again when it challenged the idea that citizens could rule themselves without the aid of a wise king.
True conservatism deals with fiscal responsibility and the virtue of earning a lifestyle reward for your ECONOMIC contribution to society.
True liberalism deals with civil integrity and the virtue of earning a moral reward for your SOCIAL contribution to a civilization.
Too much of one of the other is detrimental to a civilization, but a balance of both changes the world. One side leads to laziness and a decrease in productivity, and the other leads to financial corruption (The first reason for the fall of all true democracies) and lack of proper civil representation (The second reason for the fall of all true democracies).
We've lost that balance here in the US entirely and it saddens me. Each side of the above thinks we've gone too much to one side and the reality is that we've drifted apart too much.
I don't claim to know how to fix this, but that is my unfortunate conclusion as to how we've managed to get ourselves into this mess, or how someone or a group of people purposefully put us into this mess for their gain.
My hopes are that we can once again partake in intellectual debate, without shaming one another, and find that middle ground that is so necessary to our livelihoods.
I never really understood american conservatism and liberalism. The German counterparts are quite different.
I think all this we need to find a middle ground between two contrary positions is often the wrong way to apporach a topic.
Many different political camps see the same problems, they just sometimes differ in their solution. radical left and right both hate the banks and the establishment.
Right on. I envy most major European countries on a representative front for that reason. Here in the US, 2 parties have taken a "death grip" of sorts on US democracy, and it's getting out of hand. =(
Don't worry mate, it does not matter if you have 2 or 5 parties. They will all get corrupted eventually. The idea of politics being a compromise between several opposing camps, is the root of all evil. If we can get rid of parties and replace them with individuals that are not bound by those "voting pacts", parlamentarism might succeed.
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