{"id":545,"date":"2019-03-14T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2021-09-03T20:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:03:03","slug":"the-injured-liberal-democracy-in-europe-and-the-retreat-of-the-liberal-democracy-model-as-a-governance-instrument-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Injured&#8221; Liberal Democracy in Europe and the retreat of the Liberal Democracy Model as a Governance Instrument Part-III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Part I of this study for the liberal democracy as a means of governance in both France and the other Eurozone\/EU member-countries, we have presented in turn the pioneering elements of the yellow vests\u2019 movement but also the corresponding pioneering elements taken as decisions by the President of France Emmanuel Macron to address this movement. Next, and specifically in Part II, of this study we highlighted the main causes of the problems that injure the liberal democracy model as a means of governance in both France and the other Eurozone\/EU member-countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by<strong> Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>\u00a9<\/em><em>The law of intellectual property is prohibited in any way unlawful use\/appropriation of this article, with heavy civil and criminal penalties for the infringer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this analysis and Part III, we will indicate how and in what ways the\n&#8220;injured&#8221; model of the Liberal Democracy can be restored through the\nrestoration of its &#8220;backbone&#8221; which is also a cornerstone of a\nprosperous democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, we will present any other modern causes that &#8220;injure&#8221; the model of liberal democracy in the eyes and hearts of citizens in both France and the other member-countries of the Eurozone\/EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-21.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5660\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The &#8220;backbone&#8221; of the Liberal Democracy and the\ncornerstone of a prosperous democracy<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making a flashback and looking at the world\u2019s political history we will see that the prosperous democracies that\nhave been able to maintain the maximum amount of time have been based on a\ncommon for all social good. The good of social prosperity. In practice there can be no prosperous democratic mode\nin a society if this is not based on the existence of the good of social prosperity.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that in order to have democracy in practice,\neveryone should be involved in the mode of democracy, which is why everyone\nmust be involved in a form of prosperity irrespective of the level of their\nincomes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that is the case, then and only then will the participants in a society acquire the highest axiom which gives them the mode of democracy, the axiom of citizenship. Otherwise we have a non-thriving democracy in society that includes different categories of citizens (a, b, etc.). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to be socially prosperous in a democracy,\nthere must be a strong medium-income class in this society. The strong\nmiddle-income class is the backbone of a strong prosperous democracy and\nsociety. Because, it is the one that constitutes the &#8220;embankment&#8221; to\nany possible political vibrations that occur occasionally in a society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is that social class that diffuses the generated\nnational wealth and generally the social well-being both to the higher income\nranks through its consumption and savings respectively and to the lower income\nclasses offering on an ongoing basis a large volume of unskilled work and\ngenerally services to them, continually absorbing the unemployment of these\nlow-income classes and especially the unemployment of unskilled workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Absence or dramatic contraction of medium income class\nin a society will cause an increase in poverty and misery, social unrest,\nminiaturization of the wealth generated towards society, physical and mental\nremoval of majority of citizens both from the political world (e.g. citizens\nconsider traitors to their country&#8217;s political leaders) and more generally from\ntheir state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The physical and mental removal of citizens from their\nstate and governmental institutions makes the citizen to see the state of his\ncountry as his enemy and not his fellow traveler towards achieving the shared\n(common) goal of social well-being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When French citizens are struggling to make the month\nbecause of the high cost of living, which continues to rise while wages and\nsalaries at best are stable or declining. When pensioners are impoverished\nbecause of low pensions and the cost of living and they cannot live a dignified\nlife in their old age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When French workers in semi-urban and rural areas\nstruggle every day to survive at the minimum wage and to feed their families\nnone of them are interested in what kind of policies will be implemented if\nthey cannot distinguish themselves a better future for them and their families.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, there are two different countries. France of the rich and the France of the poor. Is what existing in the majorities of the societies of the member-countries of the Eurozone\/EU.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-22.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5661\"\/><figcaption>Social Innovation creates prosperous society<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other modern causes that injure the functioning of the\nLiberal Democracy model-as a means of governance-in France and more generally\nin the member countries of the Eurozone\/EU<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s modern societies there are additional causes that aggravate and magnify popular dissatisfaction as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> The global economic and commercial competition, which speeds up the adjustment process which must prove in practice an economy and a state in general to offer the best possible options and solutions to a global moving capital that seeks investment opportunities in the real economy with the maximum possible profit and the lowest cost\/risk for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignoring whether these options and solutions are being offered by states that practice the rule of law and respect for labour and human rights in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Flexible labour market combined with flexible wages creating great job insecurity especially for unskilled workers and middle and upper age workers in adapting to these employment and wage data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> A lack of a real long-term political and economic vision to anchor most citizens and the institutions of a member country and all the member countries of the Eurozone\/EU, giving the right to participate actively in this vision the whole society and societies respectively for the acquisition of social well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Lack of projects in the real economy that will change the face of society (e.g. modernization of infrastructure) which <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a.<\/strong> will divide all employees into a new division of labour,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b.<\/strong> In this new division of labour should be offered well-paid jobs-works    (and always in relation to the existing cost of living) regardless of the nature and the level of remuneration of each work in order to enable the workers and their families to live decently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image-23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5662\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> The bureaucratic way of government of the Eurozone\/EU member states and the Eurozone\/EU-Commission itself, which often ignores political realities and popular sensitivities, while neglecting many times the fact that there are member countries that ignore or have serious problems in the precise application of the state of justice in their societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong>  The consequences of all the above mention causes (1-5), which are leading a large proportion of citizens to poverty or their potential impoverishment, make the citizens to seek solutions to their problems in other political areas. &nbsp;This alone causes the increase in populism in many political parties in their efforts to hold back their voters. On the other hand, the nationalist-style political parties and not only, are bidding on populism to increase their voting percentages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong>  The resurgence of populism changes the behavior of the electorate which moves towards populist leaders. Climbing the political leadership and government of a country of an authoritarian leader is the second stage of threat of the modern liberal democratic governance model, which is achieved through promises to implement populist solutions to citizens&#8217; problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> The next stage and threat that injures the Liberal democratic governance model, usually caused after the rise in the executive power of an authoritarian leader, is the constant and gradual undermining of all political institutions that serving individual freedom and human rights in modern liberal societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The undermining of institutions is achieved through the implementation of authoritarian policies at the expense of the many and for the benefit of the few, eroding steadily the cohesion of a democratic society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong>  All of this is achieved on a consistent basis through the conscious and objective misinformation of the citizens either through controlled media or through controlled social media that most citizens, especially the new generations of citizens, are accustomed to follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What kind of political solutions and strategies in general will solve all these problems that &#8220;injure&#8221; the Liberal republic as a means of governance? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final part-Part IV- of this analysis, we will present the ways of resolving all these problems and the proposed political solutions-strategies that should be implemented, to strengthen the liberal democracy as a means of governance in the whole of the member countries of Eurozone\/EU.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part I of this study for the liberal democracy as a means of governance in both France and the other Eurozone\/EU member-countries, we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,7],"tags":[472,470,190,474,45,490,493,492,491],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investigation","category-research","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-europe","tag-eurozone","tag-france","tag-liberal-democracy","tag-medium-income-class","tag-populism","tag-social-unrest","tag-social-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}