The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.