While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
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 does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.
In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.
Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.