#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #ITALY #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) sicilia libertaria: The Best of Possible Worlds - Democracy. Biden Self-Referral Summit (ca, de, it, pt)[machine translation]

 Everyone's worried nowfor the fate of democracy, tried by a thousand difficulties

that are making it retreat on planet earth. The most worried of all seems to be
the president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, who to help her has
summoned, for a consultation on her state of health, the most authoritative of
his representatives, 110 between heads of state and government, chosen with care
(but not too much), excluding those who are notoriously adverse to the rules of
the majority and the protection of minorities: Russia and China in the lead. Thus
the Summit for Democracy took place on 9 and 10 December last, a videoconference
summit in which Biden, admitting that even in the United States democracy is not
really well, emphasized the need to act to defend it in a moment historically
decisive. For this reason it has announced the allocation of 424, 4 million
dollars in foreign aid, a project called Presidential Initiative for Democratic
Renewal to support independent media, the fight against corruption, free
elections. So from the bombs to export democracy it seems to have passed to cash
incentives, but the American dad always thinks about it, even if the arms-money
intertwining is not so easy to untangle, as we can continually see. Our Super
Mario also naturally intervened at the summit and declared: "Italy reaffirms its
commitment to strengthen and protect human rights, especially in favor of the
most vulnerable. We have established national action plans to further promote
gender equality and social inclusion. And to combat all forms of intolerance and
discrimination, including those based on sexual orientation ". As is amply
demonstrated, for example, by the end of the Zan proposal! However, we are
certain, Draghi said, that our democracies have been "up to" the pandemic challenge.
Despite the profuse effort , the Biden operation did not have the desired effect
and many comments, including Italians, have grasped its instrumental nature,
within the geopolitical game between competing regimes. An article that appeared
in Limes is very explicit: "The summit did not produce any concrete measures .
Rather, it served Washington to catalyze the consensus of the satellites of the
American empire and attract potential partners. So as to hit first of all the
ability of the People's Republic to influence abroad and to a lesser extent
Russia, Iran and Turkey. That is, of the powers that currently represent a threat
to American interests in Eurasia. "
However, the fundamental question is which democracy states, governments,
political forces and intellectuals "of the democratic West" think they have to
preserve from the advancement of autocracies, even if they want to believe in
their good faith. Representative liberal democracy has been marking time for some
decades, the global economic crisis of 2007/08 has accentuated all its limits,
but it is still a form of government that even in its great golden season, the
one that followed at the end of the Second World War, it turned out to be a form
of domination by the elites, capable of controlling societies through a mix, by
no means perfect, of force and persuasion. Nor is it necessary to use analyzes
and studies, which there are, to prove this; it is enough to take a quick look at
the recent past to realize what democracy has been like in the West. For Italy,
the multiple massacres that have bloodied it from 1947 onwards are sufficient.
This is the democracy for which governments and right-thinking people are
struggling so much today, that even when they admit that ours are imperfect
democracies and are committed to making them better, they are making yet another
falsification, once again to keep hold of dominance.

At the beginning of 2020 , a study by the US NGO Freedom House circulated ,
repeatedly taken up by the press and commentatorswhich since 1941 "has been
monitoring the progress of liberal democracy in the world, through a battery of
indicators ranging from freedom of the press to the independence of the
judiciary, as well as free elections, of course". This study confirms that
democracy is retreating even in "advanced" countries, Europe would be
particularly in the balance, the cases of Hungary and Poland are emblematic.
Nothing surprising though, as we know; the surprise may arise when one takes a
closer look at the democracy smuggled by such organizations. As for Italy, the
study states that: "The anti-liberal politicians have shifted the terms of the
debate and won the elections by promoting a national identity of exclusion as a
means for the masses to cling to a changing global and internal order". True, but
of a superficial truth, for which following this scheme we would have in the
Democratic Party, in Forza Italia and other similar ones the staunch defenders of
democratic values, while Lega and Movimento 5 S would have the advanced points of
an antidemocratic drift. In short, the perfect alibi to save structures and
institutions whose democracy is a mask to wear for any occasion. To reveal the
instrumentality and falsity of the debate on the fate of democracy is also an
article in the Post, dating back to 2014, which takes up a special from The
Economist, in which there are statements of this kind: "Although we happen to
abuse the term" democratic ",[...]a democracy is technically a system of
government in which all citizens are allowed to vote to determine the decisions
of the community. But since this alone does not guarantee an effective and
correct system of functioning of democracies, we also associate them as essential
a series of guarantees and freedoms: controls and limits on the powers of those
who govern, freedom of speech and association, protection of minorities and their
choices.[...]If until today democracy has been an aspiration of millions of
people and many peoples who do not enjoy it, it is because data and history say
that democracies are on average richer, are less involved in wars and are more
able to fight corruption, and offer their citizens freedom and opportunities for
themselves and their children.[...]. " Between obviousness and absurdity, in this
way the "de noantri" democracy is propagated, the one that is on the right side,
of the free and open West. Therefore it can be concluded like this: what is more
democratic than a democracy that talks about itself? Even if, in a Gattopardian
way, every effort is aimed at keeping everything as it was before.

Angelo Barberi

http://www.sicilialibertaria.it/2022/01/10/il-migliore-dei-mondi-possibili/
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