Law vs Democracy: The Basic Contradiction
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There is a general call to return to democratic processes of checks and balances. Trump is someone who while in the executive branch, is ignoring judicial orders.
Trump’s approval ratings are also higher than ever as he breaks the law.
There is no simpler contradiction on Earth: the laws produced by democracy can also be removed via democracy. Democracy is simple popularity, which is good enough to determine the head of the armed forces.
Democracy puts parties and interest blocks in a position of power to enact their agenda. If their agenda circumvents the law, so much for the law! We are seeing the result of a law that can not defend itself from the force of democratically elected law breaking. What exactly creates these laws in the first place? A minority of experts who represent the law through the court system and the processes of democracy.
There is an antigone between popularity and legality, the force of legality acting as a bolster against the force of popularity and vis-a-versa. They will always be at war.
Francis Fukuyama can write as many pieces as he wants about the threat of liberalism that Trump poses, but the fact remains we are not simply liberals, we are members of modern liberal democracies, which contain the contradiction of popularity and legality.
It appears to me that the liberal case for two-party politics is the contradiction. Legally it is flawed, as the zero-sum game, where one party’s loss is supposed to be the others gain is in fact a negative-sum game. The reason being, to amplify the popular support of the corporations, each has to relinquish more rights to those interests that control the greatest share of capital. Winning by deregulation results in the theft and destruction of more capital essential to an ethically sustainable wellbeing and flourishing! Two-party politics inevitably tends towards one-party authoritarian cults. Only the democratic rights of diverse interests constitute the sovereignty of Republics. Two-party politics is captive to Corporate Sovereignty, so fixes elections. It serves oligarchs and the corruption of governments.