Political culture is a term consisting of two words which over the years and centuries have been distorted in the consciences of most citizens. Currently, most citizens and the political world of each country define the political culture as the clash of political parties with the goal of winning the election with a “trophy” of the conquest of the executive power.
Within this “confrontational” framework and during the election campaign include terms such as duels, bickering, battle, victory, campaign, triumph, defeat, etc. The election prevalence gives the crown to the coveted winner.
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Analyzing the term politics
But then the political party that occupies and the power of the executive is changing the framework of political culture make it broader with actions expressed through conditions such as inconsistency of electoral reasons-post-electoral works, empathy in political discourse, cynicism, amoralism, unreliability and above all demagogy in order to maintain the victory over impressions to the public.
In analyzing the complex term political culture, we should concentrate on analyzing each word separately. Starting from antiquity, Plato defined politics as the art for the purpose to achieve the best.
Aristotle defined politics as the highest good of man, superior to that priceless good of health and since health problems are controlled giving a satisfactory quality of life to man. Because, and always according to Aristotle, it is the highest good when someone (politician) can give solutions to the problems of his fellow human beings leading them to leave a good life. As a tool to achieve the politics he believed it to be justice.
On these views of these two great Greek philosophers subsequently developed their own theories of politics Cicero, Polybius, Thomas Aquinas. Then came the opinions of people like Niccolò Machiavelli to complement the concept of politics by proposing their own theories to achieve the goal of controlling the power and sovereignty of the ruler.
Then, Thomas Hobbs-the founder of the modern state and the founding of political philosophy, with his social contract, John Locke-the father of classical liberalism, Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hegel with his dialectical theory and property and individual freedom profoundly influenced Western philosophy.
Adam Smith and Montesquieu with their insistence laid the foundations of modern liberalism, namely individual freedom and the Rule of law, while setting the foundations of the political realism and creating the concept of Political Culture.
On the other hand, we have the political realism which is the art of the feasibility which, in order to achieve it, obliges the ethical degradation of morality to be a prerequisite for political action, but which today identifies itself with the struggle for the seizure of power.
The term cultures
The word culture encapsulates all those human actions whose results achieve the calm of morals, individual cultivation and the subjective spirit.
The French term civilisation shows us that culture is both the material civilisation and the objective spirit and in addition to the spiritual civilization that includes the religions, the arts, the writing, the sciences that they give and ensure control over the circumstances of life.
In today’s time, both the concept of politics and the concept of culture are in decline, possibly because of ideas-obsessions that are obsessions that produce political products and their respective dealers, of medium quality and of short duration.
However, the politics and its application are the framework in which culture is coined and displayed, while the creations of civilization are the ones that will bear the passage of time and will produce simultaneously Constitutional governances which are based on specific values, frameworks and rules.
The Political culture today
Currently, the average citizen does not have the time and the will to deal with or be interested in politics and political culture in general. Absorbed and focused on the survival of his own and his family and feeling that in these matters cannot influence their evolution (due to non-required knowledge, lack of good information etc.) begins to feel a more generalized sense of insecurity.
The consequence of this is that the average citizen feels that his daily life can be overturned at any time without him being able to do anything on his part to stop any reversal.
The result today is that the international political system is in a transitional period prevailing worldwide a climate of liquidity in most parts of the world.
In the countries of the West, a persistent political and institutional crisis is being presented with great resilience in time.
In the United States, the world’s superpower, President Trump takes decisions without following the institutional process. He enters unneeded quarrels with the traditional Western allies of the United States and blames very easily journalists and institutional officers as enemies of the nation if they dare and oppose his own view.
The UK standard for its institutions and its unparalleled adherence to tradition shows entering a crisis warren that those responsible for giving the necessary solutions follow policies with prominent elements of adventurism and lacking responsibility without being able to predict the consequences of this crisis, making UK average citizen to concern and feel unsecure about his future.
Italy, with its unparalleled architecture and finesse of its culture, is experiencing a drama in turn, looking like the Italian political establishment operating within a reality show of Berlusconi TV.
There seems to be no responsible politician to pull the country out of the “quicksand” that has entered. The whole of Italy expects to be rescued by guys like Salvini who look to satisfy his ambitions and let the economy of Italy fall into Tartarus.
The world’s largest lung-the Amazon rainforest is on fire and President of Brazil Bolsonaru is dealing with anything other than this.
The lack of political culture, the authoritarian type of “democratic” governance model that begins and is adopted in Western countries, imitating as one point the authoritarian capitalist model of China and Russia, tends to create profound concerns to the average citizen of the planet for the future of this and his family.
