Реализъм вместо догматизъм в политиката (“скенерът” срещу идеологиите)

Abstract

When something or someone is being declared “the best of everything possible” this a priori and posteriori wrong. This is not useful for that “something” or that “someone” because their natural competitors do not share that thought and they do not sleep. Nobody can stop the development, regardless of the direction, in some or other assessment criteria.

Long ago the political democracy has been declared such a perfect “something”. But credibility in it begins to fall exactly where it has taken strong roots. For opponents, this is a thing that has been known long ago.

Now there are empirically on the subject, but there are no convincing explanations of the data. The article offers a possible interpretation of that crisis of confidence in democracy. Specific tools developed by author and called by him Scanner, were used for the analysis.

The conclusions are: democratization as a process is supported by its actual effectivity, and it is cyclical; there are many different democratic models competing with each other; nowhere ever has existed uninterrupted and one-way democratic development; democratic content is most often helpless a form countering undemocratic aggression outside.

The text is not a requiem for democracy, but an attempt to breathe new life into the political process and to understand the emerging new phenomena in the world understood in today's mainstream as a subversion of modernity – for example in USA (Trump (UK (Brexit (China (Xi Jinping (Russia (Putin (Philippines (DuTerte (South Africa (Zuma (Turkey (Erdogan (and many other places in the 21st century.