(18-10-2022, 02:38 PM)Manthink Wrote: That is the nature politics - one won't admit their mistake in a broken system that is for a long time skewed towards protecting one's interest rather than serving the public and people. What is worst is while many can see the emperor wears no cloths, the elites and "top 1%" continue to assume their role as an entitlement than a duty.
No system is ever perfect - The is why any governance need constant reform and renewal - easier said than done.
Not doing so is just following what History has shown us - Fermentation of distrust, revolts and revolutions.
That is true – political systems, just like business organizations, need constant review and reorgs to stay relevant and correct problems.
The challenge for western democracies is after the end of the cold war, they drank so much Kool aid that many believe to this day that their existing system is practically as perfect as can be. Such erroneous and sclerotic thinking is reflected in arrogant memes like “democracy is the worst system except everything else”, “the end of history and the last man” etc.
When empirical evidence began to emerge in the early 2000s whereby many newly democratized countries simply collapsed and sunk into the abyss, western media, academics and politicians refused to acknowledge that a closer study on western democracies was warranted.
Instead they came up with theories to explain away these failures. Many academics and media commentators simply dismissed such failures are a result of failing to meet “democratic conditions” such as you need XX% of middle class voters, GDP per capita must be at least $X, literacy level must be at least X%, judiciary must be independent, media must be free etc.
Towards the late 2010s when even shinning democratic beacons such as western Europe and US got into more and more trouble with dubious leaders, the narrative changed to lambasting and attributing all major problems to a particular leader thereby implying that all will be well once said scumbag leader is removed. It didn’t work for US and neither will it work for UK.
I am now beginning to see some western intelligentsia resorting to yet another desperate attempt to deny the problem by using a bastardized version of Peter Lynch’s quote “A good company is one that is so well run even if an idiot takes over all will still be well”. The idea is all these screw ups by these dubious leaders and politicians don’t matter as a democratic country has systemic superiority and will continue to prosper no matter which idiots take charge.
The only people they are kidding is themselves end of the day. If the elites refuse to reform and continue to ignore the problems faced by the % masses, one day they are going to end up like Louis XVI.