Our Common Cause: Establishing the Political Power We Lack

Our Common Cause: Establishing the Political Power We Lack

by Étienne Chouard

Narrated by Alan Cook

Unabridged — 2 hours, 31 minutes

Our Common Cause: Establishing the Political Power We Lack

Our Common Cause: Establishing the Political Power We Lack

by Étienne Chouard

Narrated by Alan Cook

Unabridged — 2 hours, 31 minutes

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Overview

I want to talk to you about democracy. The real one. The one that does not exist, and the one we really need today. My research method is that of Hippocrates, who said, look for the cause of causes. In other words, to cure a disease, to solve a problem, it is useless to attack the consequences, it is useless to attack the different causes. There is always a determining cause (the one that determines all the others)-and that is our common cause. The first decisive battle is to push the important words "right side up": First. I am not a "citizen" (a citizen is autonomous; he votes himself his laws). I am only a "voter;" that is to say, a political child-because I am subject to the law voted into existence by someone other than me. Second. My "parents" in politics, the elected officials, do not want me to emancipate myself from them-they do not allow me to vote for or against the laws to which I have to submit myself. We are "the incompetents." They treat us like children. But it is our fault, because children also believe in "Santa Claus," and so voters believe in "universal suffrage," which we accept to call "democracy" (demos kratos, power belongs to the people). The so-called modern "democracy".

Product Details

BN ID: 2940191672533
Publisher: Max Milo Editions
Publication date: 04/03/2024
Series: Essais - documents
Edition description: Unabridged
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