Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Why Democracy Doesn't Work...

when it is planted backward? [i.e., it is not "discovered" step by step, in a quest for power equilibrium, but made in laboratory, with the only aim of classical principles' contentment.]

Simply because you can have a bunch of guys settled to follow their own rational interests. They choose rationally, they respect all the principles of democracy, but the result is a pure "taking over." They took over the Romanian democracy, with a limping Constitution, sets of well pondered laws, and several herds of "supporters" (bunches wanting to plant their interests among the top rationale...)

And the result? A marvelous picture. A free elected man can reach the no. 1 on the list of public enemies, for obscure reasons. The others seek not only his substitution, but his total destruction, as the "social-democrat" leader yell in front of a crowd gathered to taste free beer and "mititei." Another "social-democrat," ex foreign affairs minister (Adrian Severin), blames the Western Conservatory Press (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Standard, Wall Street Journal) for taking side in the "democratic fight" and being intoxicated. As if these positions weren't astonishing enough, the "liberals" fill up all the media and the public place with their love declarations for the social-democrats. You cannot help yourself to ask: What the heck did Basescu? Tried to disband the business junta?

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