There is something missing from our public debates. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement.
We have a natural constant craving for leadership. In Wisconsin, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes has conceded to incumbent Senator Ron Johnson in a closely fought contest. Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds Laura Miller. But Warnock fell just shy of the 50% mark needed to avoid a runoff. Incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock received about 30,000 more votes than his Republican rival, former NFL star Herschel Walker. In Georgia, newly reelected Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced plans for a December 6 runoff in Georgia’s Senate race. Most of the 20% of the ballots yet to be counted are mail-in votes from urban areas likely to favor Cortez Masto. In Nevada, Trump-supporting Republican Adam Laxalt is leading incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto by fewer than 20,000 votes. In Arizona, incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Kelly has a significant lead over Republican Blake Masters, with nearly a third of ballots yet to be counted. Three undetermined races will determine whether Democrats or Republicans hold power in the Senate. Congress hangs in the balance two days after the midterm elections, when predictions of a “red wave” of Republican victories failed to materialize. As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.The battle for control of the U.S. It must be observed in this regard that if there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. Those who are convinced that they know the truth and firmly adhere to it are considered unreliable from a democratic point of view, since they do not accept that truth is determined by the majority, or that it is subject to variation according to different political trends. Nowadays there is a tendency to claim that agnosticism and sceptical relativism are the philosophy and the basic attitude which correspond to democratic forms of political life. It requires that the necessary conditions be present for the advancement both of the individual through education and formation in true ideals, and of the “subjectivity” of society through the creation of structures of participation and shared responsibility.
“Authentic democracy is possible only in a State ruled by law, and on the basis of a correct conception of the human person. Democracy needs values to avoid being manipulated Pope John Paul 2nd, The Hundreth Year, 1991, 46 3. Thus she cannot encourage the formation of narrow ruling groups which usurp the power of the State for individual interests or for ideological ends.” “The Church values the democratic system inasmuch as it ensures the participation of citizens in making political choices, guarantees to the governed the possibility both of electing and holding accountable those who govern them, and of replacing them through peaceful means when appropriate. Democracy is valuable if it ensures citizen participation Pope Francis, On Fraternity and Social Friendship, 2020, 14, 110.Ģ. Nowadays, what do certain words like democracy, freedom, justice or unity really mean? They have been bent and shaped to serve as tools for domination, as meaningless tags that can be used to justify any action… Words like freedom, democracy or fraternity prove meaningless, for the fact is that “only when our economic and social system no longer produces even a single victim, a single person cast aside, will we be able to celebrate the feast of universal fraternity”.
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