
The People vs. Democracy
Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
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Narrated by:
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Timothy Andrés Pabon
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By:
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Yascha Mounk
The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, Yascha Mounk shows, democracy itself may now be at risk.
Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are increasingly at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of “rights without democracy” took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create something just as bad: a system of “democracy without rights.”
The consequence, Mounk shows in The People vs. Democracy, is that trust in politics is dwindling. Citizens are falling out of love with their political system. Democracy is wilting away. Drawing on vivid stories and original research, Mounk identifies three key drivers of voters’ discontent: stagnating living standards, fears of multiethnic democracy, and the rise of social media. To reverse the trend, politicians need to enact radical reforms that benefit the many, not the few.
The People vs. Democracy is the first book to go beyond a mere description of the rise of populism. In plain language, it describes both how we got here and where we need to go. For those unwilling to give up on either individual rights or the popular will, Mounk shows, there is little time to waste: this may be our last chance to save democracy.
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There is a lot to learn in here and, coming from the left, some sacred cows slain.
A Must Read
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a must read in the new age of political populism
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good food for thought,
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If you keep up with politics pretty well, skip to the final section where he makes recommendations.
Final part is worth it
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Easily worth a credit despite it's flaws.
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Mostly Fair
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You don’t like Trump, me neither! But what happens when your precious undemocratic liberalism becomes undemocratic illiberalism? What happens when the left calls everything it wants “rights”, even when what it really entails is trampling other people’s rights?
He doesn’t even make a strong case for why populism is so antithetical to democracy, compared to other political philosophies and movements, you’re just supposed to understand that it’s bad. And he gives hardly any shrift whatsoever to left wing populism. It’s Theodore Adorno saying authoritarianism only exists on the right by defining it to exclude all the way the left is authoritarian too. He uses the word “democracy” when he means “liberalism” as in people voting for what they want is undemocratic, when what he means is what they’re voting for - or would if they even could, which they can’t, thus the populism - is illiberal. This book is a mess and ends with a sappy elegy about ancient Roman. Like settle down, wanker.
Woefully shortsighted
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People Vs Democracy or democracy Vs people?
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Not worth it
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