If enough people in a democracy voted INTELLIGENTLY it would have an effect. But that's the problem!
If I ever found that book I would buy it...even though my ability to read Italian is not that good.
Mmm, this could work at the age of the French revolution. Nowadays everyone who wants to go into politics needs a big amount of money to finance his electoral campaign, even though he/she could be on a good faith. If you don't have this money, you are invisible. So every politician has wether to be rich of his/her own (and it obviously excludes who is not like that) or to be connected with someone (a multinational, a bank, etc...) who can provide him/her a good budget in order to support his candidature - but asking in change to serve his/her interests. So politics is only a matter of business nowadays - entirely - and this has nothing to do with democracy. I would rather call it plutocracy. I believe that the parliamentary system is unjust (sorry for our friends French revolutionaries who contributed to create it, but times have changed !). It simply doesn't work anymore and it can't be changed from its inside because it reproduces everytime the same mechanism....
Could you really read a book in Italian ? Oh, great ! :D The author is Mario Mazzucchelli, the title just... "Saint-Just". There are many things I don't like in this book, it features also some interesting details however.
Re: Saint-Just...Virgo?
If enough people in a democracy voted INTELLIGENTLY it would have an effect. But that's the problem!
If I ever found that book I would buy it...even though my ability to read Italian is not that good.
Mmm, this could work at the age of the French revolution. Nowadays everyone who wants to go into politics needs a big amount of money to finance his electoral campaign, even though he/she could be on a good faith. If you don't have this money, you are invisible. So every politician has wether to be rich of his/her own (and it obviously excludes who is not like that) or to be connected with someone (a multinational, a bank, etc...) who can provide him/her a good budget in order to support his candidature - but asking in change to serve his/her interests. So politics is only a matter of business nowadays - entirely - and this has nothing to do with democracy. I would rather call it plutocracy. I believe that the parliamentary system is unjust (sorry for our friends French revolutionaries who contributed to create it, but times have changed !). It simply doesn't work anymore and it can't be changed from its inside because it reproduces everytime the same mechanism....
Could you really read a book in Italian ? Oh, great ! :D
The author is Mario Mazzucchelli, the title just... "Saint-Just". There are many things I don't like in this book, it features also some interesting details however.