The west’s custodians of democracy failed to notice it rotting away | Pankaj Mishra

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British and American elites failed to anticipate the triumph of homegrown demagogues – because they imagined the only threats to democracy lurked abroad, says Indian author Pankaj Mishra

Anglo-American lamentations about the state of democracy have been especially loud ever since Boris Johnson joined Donald Trump in the leadership of the free world. For a very long time, Britain and the United States styled themselves as the custodians and promoters of democracy globally, fighting a great moral battle against its foreign enemies.

 

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What an excellent piece 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The West is not the custodian of democracy, it invented it. And I wonder what lies behind Mr Mishra's gratuitous, racist reference to 'blond bullies'? Does he think they are better to worse than brown or black bullies?

Democracy is rotting away because some people can't let democracy take its course their agenda of we know best is conceptually fascism

. The reason “the promoters of democracy have no nose for its true enemies” is that they assume humans are rational beings. The perpetrators are unable to feel and disconnected from their soul, supported by those whose immaturity requires projecting power onto a father figure. .

Not democracy but wealthy individuals who are trying to highjack it to turn it into oligarchy and the lack of wide-spread civics and humanities educational requirements.

Pankaj, mate... this is democracy. The people who won you just don’t like.

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