Democracy is never perfect. But they effort to affect all citizens in social and political life. This is how people can defend their rights and freedoms. Therefore, the biggest threat to democracy is not voters, but frustrated elites.
Excellent American writer and author Anna Appelbaum book The Twilight of Democracy, the deceptive impulse of authoritarianism describes the operation of this kind of elite – elites who, incapable to climb to the top of the social ladder, change the rules of the game. These principles include respect for another people [1] and cultures or respect for democratic principles. The point is that for these aspiring elites they are just empty clichés and in the utmost version even an obstacle to gaining power that needs to be eliminated. These obstacles are besides law and circuit breakers. It is 1 of many ways of autocrats to keep their supporters in a state of awe. It's a dangerous game, due to the fact that many hated people can attack as targets their political opponents only due to the fact that that's what their organization leader tells them. Accepting specified a course of action, convinces Appelbaum, means the dusk of democracy.
Leaders don't act alone. They are surrounded by their coworkers or people who know that they can make money out of deals with power. They are the main reason for the stableness of authoritarian power. The main reason is that besides many people base their careers or lives on the government [2]. Autocrat workers frequently suck up to them in order to keep a power orbit and make a leader worship. Examples of specified leaders [1] describe Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman very well in the book Spin Dictators, a fresh face of tyranny in the 21st century. specified actions aim at 2 things: activating your own electorate and demobilising the opposition. Anna Applebaum shows present supporters of Donald Trump, who compare him to Jesus. This is the modern cult of a leader. Additionally, now Trump is created as God's favorite, who is protected from deadly bullets. These actions do not aid democracy, but weaken it, causing a deficiency of debate about the work of our political leaders. However, we as citizens must be very critical of them due to the fact that we entrust our destiny to them.
Democracy is frequently weaker than autocracy in terms of sustainability. The democratic government is more frequently highly unstable in our time by fragmentation and broad government coalitions. That is why democracy is falling rapidly, due to the fact that in it there is inactive an electoral conflict for power and in autocracy it is only 1 leader that governs everyone else. It causes chaos and todayThe public doesn't like him due to the fact that they see him everywhere. The other of chaos is causality, which present means far more than even the best electoral programs that parties create. That's why elites are so important. Their independency may be a nail to the coffin of a given political formation. This nail is an efficient and independent authoritative apparatus that makes the state function in any way. This means that they are enemies of autocrats and must be removed or be submissive. For leaders with authoritarian tendencies, this is the only way to gain and keep power.
Another action that is bad for democracy is to fabricate disinformation about its political opponents. We experience this regular erstwhile our politicians throw accusations. Equally incorrect is the creation of an alternate reality by the workers of the regime, which then becomes stronger all time until it becomes the foundation on which the organization functions. This does not aid to build assurance in a country that is everything for democracy. Institutions alternatively of working for the public must undo all the lies that politicians have said to win the election.
Authoritarianism has no political colours [5]. It is only a consequence of fear of a changing world. any of our politicians usage these fears as political weapons. These fears should be put to death, not blown away. After this, we should know the real leaders who will regulation the country.
The combination in the utmost right of racism and anti-globalism for economical reasons provides protection against the accusation of racism [6]. It builds in us a sense of superiority from another cultures or nationalities. These feelings are very dangerous. It's 1 of the first symptoms that can announce a wave of cultural or cultural violence. Never, but we should never think like this, due to the fact that otherwise we will have no empathy and without it we are not human.
Autocrats want to return to the past, which is in their memory. It has nothing actual but pleasant memories. They indicate interior enemies who are expected to take most of the country [7]. All this distances the elite from contemporary problems that plague people and power deals only with history. It's not a good thing. We've seen these things in many countries. The example given by Anna Applebaum is Spain. It was in this country that the dispute over past broke the political consensus.
Democracy is always threatened by many factors, whether by social discontent or by attempts to change by elites who want to come to power. We must openly admit that our times are no longer peaceful and that we as a society have the task of supporting the state, whether by helping different state institutions or by being an activist and fighting for different good things. Not only does society have the task of supporting the state, but besides the elites that lead it. You gotta set an example of how to behave in times of crisis. Each of us must prepare for our roles. In a word, 1 must not hang on to 1 another and divide society [8].
[1] vide Anne Applebaum, The Twilight of Democracy, the deceptive impulse of authoritarianism, Agora, Warsaw 2020, pp. 15-17.
[2] vide Anne Applebaum, op. cit., pp. 28-29.
[3] vide Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators, a fresh face of tyranny in the 21st century,Sign, Kraków 2024, pp. 115-117.
[4] vide Wojciech Sadurski, vide Pandemia Populists,Sign, Kraków 2024. pp. 59-60.
[5] vide Moisés Naím, Revenge of Power, How Autocrats Re-create 20th Century Politics, Sonia Draga, Katowice 2022, pp. 299-301.
[6] Wojciech Sadurski, op. cit., p. 39.
[7] Anne Applebaum, op.cit., p. 93.
[8] ibid pp. 146-147.
