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So at a high level, what’s the path to recovery for Western liberal democracy? There seem to be many long-term structural problems that we aren’t really dealin
by matthewmacleod 8y ago
So at a high level, what’s the path to recovery for Western liberal democracy?
There seem to be many long-term structural problems that we aren’t really dealing with. Climate change, unfair accumulation of wealth, the change in labour and employment requirements; decaying infrastructure, corruption, increasingly adversarial and fact-free politics, to name a few.
I would like the world to be a better place for everyone. I always thought that a balanced mix of well-regulated markets and targeted state involvement, backed by a transparent and accessible democracy, would be the way to achieve that. But it seems to have faltered, at least in the Anglosphere.
Is it just done for? Does the future look totally different? It seems like such an intractable problem that I have no idea where to start.
- uxp100 8y agoWhat's the connection you see between this article and this question? Leaving the UNHRC (not to be confused with the UNHCR as someone noted below, they're not a bad choice AFAIK if you are looking for a charitable organizations helping refugees to give to) doesn't seem to be a sign of the decline of western liberal democracy. The council has issued more condemnations of Israel than it has issued condemnations of every other country in the world combined. Leaving is about rejecting that set of priorities. Not to say that those priorities are wrong, but obviously the US leadership does not agree that Israel should be the subject of so much of the councils time.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoTime, the pendulum will eventually swing back.