Democracy, Tocqueville explained to his contemporaries, is a universal movement, even if each society imprints the distinctive features of its national character.
The same is true of the democratic restructuring that we have been experiencing for a few years. It never ceases to amaze us with its global nature. We discover everywhere the same underlying trends: disintegration of political parties, divide between people and elites, cultural alienation between "somewhere" and "anywhere" the entrenched cleave between the people and the globalized elites), runaway demand for rights, exacerbation of moral censorship, identity aspirations…
I could go on but unlike the loquacious Schiff I wont
The same is true of the democratic restructuring that we have been experiencing for a few years. It never ceases to amaze us with its global nature. We discover everywhere the same underlying trends: disintegration of political parties, divide between people and elites, cultural alienation between "somewhere" and "anywhere" the entrenched cleave between the people and the globalized elites), runaway demand for rights, exacerbation of moral censorship, identity aspirations…
I could go on but unlike the loquacious Schiff I wont
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