The Reasons Why: My Radical Politics

To begin with, let me first say a few things about the human race, humankind – now I think it is pretty obvious that we are a social species, we like to do things in groups, we like to socialize, we work together, fall in love, share our thoughts – it’s what we do and we do it in a place called “society”.

Weak Democracy and Entertainment

For the majority of people in the West it appears that democracy has lost its meaning as a means of political participation and is now seen as a kind of freedom to have fun or to be entertained – a right upheld and maintained by massive security forces, harsh anti-terrorism laws, vast corporations and increasingly powerful executive driven governments. While democracy continues to exist as a political and social ideal for so many oppressed peoples in the Third World, in the West it has become a matter of preserving the luxuries we currently enjoy against any perceived threat – from terrorism to global warming. Under such circumstances it is no wonder that democracy is not in good condition and largely exists in name only, not only in the corrupt states of the Third World, but within the increasingly decadent heart of the West itself.

Partisan Politics versus Direct Democracy

The effect that the advent of partisan politics had on the legislative process is that it disconnected political power from the physical community of human beings and transferred it to an artificially created political interest group claiming to represent the “interests” of the people as a whole.