Pillars of Democracy
The pillars of democracy can be summed up as liberty, equality, and justice. These pillars within a democracy are protected by The People and their representatives through:
1. Legitimacy – Acceptance by The People that all power to govern is given to them and them alone.
2. Separation of Powers – No single person should have the ability to become a dictator, tyrant, king, emperor, or demagogue. No group should be able to embody the same forms of tyranny. Power must, at a minimum, be split into executive, legislative, and judicial.
3. Popular Participation – The People must have a voice in government through participation, equality, political tolerance, regular free and fair elections, economic freedom, multi-party systems, and rule of law. The People are sovereign and any government must be based upon the consent of the governed.
4. Checks and Balances – The more checks-and-balances put into place the better it is for The People. Accountability and transparency allow for the prevention of abuses of power. Democracy is supported by a free press, majority rule while preserving minority rights, accepting the results of elections, equality before the law, due process of law, and constitutional limits on government.
5. Periodic Elections – Tyranny and dictatorship can only be avoided when The People have the ability to change their government leaders on a regular basis.
6. Rule of Law – The rule of law is supreme, not the whims of any leader. Nobody is above the law and everybody is held to account for their actions.
7. Fundamental Human Rights – Human rights must be respected, guaranteed, and protected. This includes equality and social, economic, and political pluralism. The values of tolerance, pragmatism, cooperation, and compromise must flourish.
Corporatism is Often Fascism by Another Name
It is easy for corporatists to show disdain for the other forms of government within the galaxy, while refusing to see that their tyranny is no different from the evils of anarchy, communism, confederacy, cooperatives, dictatorships, feudal, patronage, and theocratic governments. The corporatists have employed an army of public relations personnel to conceal the fact that corporatism by another name is fascism. The corporate governments that control the Federation range in their abuses of The People, and their fascist tendencies tend to fall along a spectrum. The worst of these fascists are allies of Zachary Hudson, but even the corporate allies of Felicia Winters are proto-fascist by nature, not democratic. Not all corporate governments embody the worst pillars of fascism, but neither is any corporate government a democracy of The People. Corporations answer to their owners and shareholders above all else, not to The People they govern. Do not be fooled. Corporatism is fascism and it adheres to much different pillars than democracy. Ancient Earth philosopher Jason Stanley wrote in his book, “How Fascism Works” that the pillars of fascism include:
1. Invoking a mythic past where promises to return people to a golden era are made.
2. Supporting propaganda and promoting anti-intellectualism and unreality. Fascists deliberately undermine a free press, vilify experts, spread conspiracy theories, and mislead through polarization. They scorn honest public discourse and appeal to the crudest of human emotions and passions.
3. They promote hierarchy. The idea that some people have a greater claim to society than others.
4. They promote victimhood. They want The People to believe that everyone is out to get them and only the leader can protect them.
5. They use law and order to protect members of the in-group and as a weapon to control the out-group. Members of the out-group are vilified.
6. They want men from the in-group to have sexual anxiety about the vulnerability of women to men in the out-group. This is often termed in polluting a “bloodline” or making the in-group inferior due to the contamination of them by the out-group.
7. Members of the in-group are said to be the “true” citizens, while members of the out-group are claimed to be lazy, decadent, mongrel, corrupt, or too cosmopolitan.
8. Lastly, they tend to promote the concept that work shall set you free and the out-group is often targeted for forced labor since they are “inferior” and “lazy.”
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