It is the fault of selfish individual human nature that causes democracy to be so back-and-forth and broken- so, in other words, it is the fault of both you and I.
This is the point in the article where you either decide to keep reading, or throw me off as a politically backwards individual who has no real understanding of your selfish perception of what is politically correct or incorrect. The moment you decide to stop reading and close your mind to this article, is the moment you prove my argument correct and become part of the problem that is inherent in our democratic society.
So, how exactly is it your fault and mine? Simple; the idea we have that we are always right in our opinions is the issue, and our resistance to others opinions on the ground that they're 'not for us' impedes all democratic success in the system, as this attitude is translated to the politicians, who immediately take sides, attempting to appeal to a group or the individual in general. For a democracy to properly function, politicians need to find some way to down their competitive natures and cease taking sides. Fuck the Conservatives, fuck the Liberals, fuck the NDP, Bloc Quebecois, Republicans, Democrats, Green Party, and all the other little obscure parties out to 'fix the world' in their favor. That's the problem! Everyone is working in someone elses favor, and in doing so, against the favor of someone else. It's great to win, but every time someone wins, somebody else loses. That's a rule of thumb for all those who look to conquer.
This selfish attitude comes from, or perhaps in only cemented by a consumerist society that emphasises the consumer is always right, and although this is in a different context to that of traditional politics, it causes individual or collective egos to grow. This attitude transfers itself into political standings, in which an individual or collective becomes so stiff in believing that they're always right to the point that they become condescending to people of differing opinions, which polarizes the opposition to the point where they too become condescending and stiff in mind. Now, let's be totally honest... this polarization usually occurs as a result of the right, who are always the ones to become stiff in mind first, believing that their way is the way that is the best for everyone, throwing away others opinions as 'the opinions of those who don't properly understand the situation like I/we do.' This, in turn, causes the left to get so frustrated that their advances towards making a more co-operative form of government are constantly spurred indifferently away as 'silly little attempts to implement socialism,' which the right is so sure doesn't work in any way, shape, or form, using it as a keyword to inflame an ignorant mass towards ostracizing the well-meaning left-wingers, who now slowly degenerate into something almost just as bad as the right due to their ideas being stonewalled. So, in a nutshell, the condescending self-righteousness of the right causes everyone else to stoop to their level, forever tearing apart any hope for democratic co-operation.
Does this mean that the abolition of the right is the answer? Of course not! They are just as entitled to their opinions as anyone else! What they're not entitled too, however, is ignoring the opinions of everyone else.
What I am suggesting is an abolition of what feeds the rights stiffness of mind, and in turn, feeds everyone elses becoming stuck in their own opinions. This means abolishing the current capitalist system as it is, and ceasing consumerism's wrongly-placed attitude of altruism in serving the consumers, as it breeds an irreversible selfishness in both the individual and collective.
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