THE AGO GROUP TEACHES LESSONS
- We have known for a long time
It’s quite funny to follow the delegation of the Ago Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers which, under the leadership of Per Syorgen, teaches lessons of democracy to our officials and politicians during its visit to Yerevan.
In the flood of the demagogic statements on Armenia’s deviating from democratic principles, no time and space is left for a person to decide what that ill-fated democracy could really mean and what it has in common with the real authorities governing the people.
The real existence of “democracy” has only two viable forms: “qualification-based democracy”, i.e. true democracy for the select, or, “governable democracy”, i.e. imitation of democracy for all. Contemporary liberal democracy is entirely governable. And it couldn’t have been otherwise. Ungovernable democracy is ochlocracy, terror and chaos which are quickly transformed into totalitarianism. The thing is that [direct and equal] democracy implies a formal equality among absolutely unequal individuals. They are unequal both in terms of their professionalism and mental abilities and from the point of view of property and responsibility. The voice of a degenerate drunkard is equalized to the voice of an intellectual scholar and so on and so forth.
Such formal equality, if feasible, would be the same as the equality between the owner of one share and the owner of the whole control package of a joint stock company; or, the equality between a professor and a half-educated student in an academic council. Such system could not possibly function. That’s why the mechanism of true democracy always functions as a mechanism compensating formal equality.
Historically, democracy, that is, the form of government elected by citizens possessing certain rights, has originated as a qualification-based equality, i.e. equality for the select. In conditions of antique classical democracy, the citizens acted as fighters who had their permanent place in a row (in a phalanx or in Roman legions). A citizen is the one who is ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of his motherland at any moment. And such relationship establishes the firm basis of the inseparability of rights.
The further evolution of “democracy” was a process of breaking off such relationship, and even bringing about its total elimination. That’s to say, the existing political rights (do not confuse with human rights in general) are not based on anything at all.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the American “model” democracy of the “founding fathers” granted suffrage to around 12 percent of the mature population. By general calculations, most different property qualifications exceeded the amount of 1 million Dollars. This was actually the real “elite”. Alexander Hamilton, one of the “founding fathers”, called the people “a big monster”. And they first of all viewed democracy as a tool for bridling that “monster”.
Broadening the circle of the people having the right to benefit from democracy became possible as a result of overcoming a certain property and educational barriers, but most importantly, by way of improving the public consciousness and the most different levers of governing the political institutions. That’s to say, the process of broadening democracy was accompanied by building compensation mechanisms.
What is known as a “multi-party system”, “independent press” and “free elections” are the tools of control over the same parties, press and elections. Furthermore, those tools are constantly improved, with the financial tool being the most effective. No one except the representatives of the economic and political elite has the opportunity to operate parties and mass media and provide funding for electoral campaigns.
In conditions of modern democracy, when the mechanisms of compensating the expression of will have reached to perfection, the role of “masses” in political processes is reduced to a minimum. And the actual process becomes an imitation of a struggle, when the principal political parties do not differ from one another in terms of their world-outlook.
It is ridiculous that the constructive opposition is normally ignored in our reality and accused of cooperation with the authorities. We consider that the representatives of a “genuine opposition” are those who at least accuse the authorities of crimes against humanity and make appeals for overthrowing them by the use of violence.
The attempt of the Council of Europe to impose formal democracy on our country, without giving it permission to build neither permanent nor temporary compensation mechanisms, pursues a goal to degrade and corrupt the state which will spontaneously lose the features of a sovereign subject and even be deprived of the ability to govern itself.
- “HAYOTS ASHKHARH”
Discussion
Galust wrote:
I think current "democracy" model in Armenia is Azeri model, that was establish by Azery communist party representatives Mr. Rob&SERJ. This model allows "Hayots Ashkharh" to print lies, any lies that will please it's Azery patrons, who authorize their paycheks. According to "Hayots Ashkharh" that is the most progressive model that Europe and USA should adopt as well, since it was adopted by "Haylour" and other WORLD FAMUSE MEDIA OUTLETS...
This "democracy" model lets create Slavery style Khalifat in Armenia, where Khalif(President) collects taxes(bribes) from all the hierarchy of government ... That is why "Hayots Ashkharh" calls to citizens of Armenia "Haraj Hayastan"...
Khoren wrote:- Galust
I think current "democracy" model in Armenia is Azeri model, that was establish by Azery communist party representatives Mr. Rob&SERJ. This model allows "Hayots Ashkharh" to print lies, any lies that will please it's Azery patrons, who authorize their paycheks. According to "Hayots Ashkharh" that is the most progressive model that Europe and USA should adopt as well, since it was adopted by "Haylour" and other WORLD FAMUSE MEDIA OUTLETS...This "democracy" model lets create Slavery style Khalifat in Armenia, where Khalif(President) collects taxes(bribes) from all the hierarchy of government ... That is why "Hayots Ashkharh" calls to citizens of Armenia "Haraj Hayastan"...
i don't know why armtown.com keeps on quoting articels from Hayots Ashkharh and Lilit Poghosyan, we all know who they are, who they represent and who pays their salaries...
the worst things is to write and say something that you don't beleive in- Galust
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