Most Westerners are drilled from a young age to only ever think of democracy as an outcome, and to never question its outcomes so long as the process looks okay.
And for good reason. All across the Western world people are facing the same problems of housing crises, incredible inequality, real wages stagnating, homelessness, and erosion of social services due to austerity. If any non-indoctrinated person looked at these outcomes only to see the same neoliberal technocrats playing with fractions of percentage points as "solutions", they would likely conclude that the political system as a whole is broken.
Yeah. It's bewildering. One example is how "democracy" and "multiple parties" are considered synonymous, since they exist in wholesome liberal democracies (pls ignore dominant party states like Japan and Malaysia). We here know what load of rot that is but Redditors are always ready to bust it out as a thought-cancelling cliche against any notions of Chinese/Cuban/Soviet Democracy. Which is odd since another common sentiment I see on Reddit is "George Washington was right, partisan fighting is going to destroy us".
Most Westerners are drilled from a young age to only ever think of democracy as an outcome, and to never question its outcomes so long as the process looks okay.
And for good reason. All across the Western world people are facing the same problems of housing crises, incredible inequality, real wages stagnating, homelessness, and erosion of social services due to austerity. If any non-indoctrinated person looked at these outcomes only to see the same neoliberal technocrats playing with fractions of percentage points as "solutions", they would likely conclude that the political system as a whole is broken.
Not even. We're taught to recognize correlates of democracy and then think dogmatically about those.
Yeah. It's bewildering. One example is how "democracy" and "multiple parties" are considered synonymous, since they exist in wholesome liberal democracies (pls ignore dominant party states like Japan and Malaysia). We here know what load of rot that is but Redditors are always ready to bust it out as a thought-cancelling cliche against any notions of Chinese/Cuban/Soviet Democracy. Which is odd since another common sentiment I see on Reddit is "George Washington was right, partisan fighting is going to destroy us".