BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
I found the latest Russell Brand podcast fascinating. I know Brand is not to everyone's taste but his latest guest, David Runciman has a lot if interesting stuff to say.
He talks about the paralysis in Western liberal democracies. Nothing seems to get done any more and all efforts to change things have failed. Even more radical parties in Greece, Spain and Italy have been unable to change things when elected.
The US voted for Trump and apart from a tax cut, nothing has changed.
Western voters hark back to the good old days of 1947 to the mid-seventies when this style of government delivered real benefits to the electorate.
Runciman suggests that our liberal democracies are the problem and that we need a new form of government but doesn't have any solutions to offer.
I was born in 1978 so I missed those glory years (our footballing ones too) but the paralysis in the system seems clear now. Brexit has magnified it in the UK but it's clear that the situation is the same across the Western world.
Is Western liberal democracy at an end? Did it achieve all it could by the mid-seventies? Is there a viable alternative.
I couldn't get a link to the podcast so I've put the youtube link below:
He talks about the paralysis in Western liberal democracies. Nothing seems to get done any more and all efforts to change things have failed. Even more radical parties in Greece, Spain and Italy have been unable to change things when elected.
The US voted for Trump and apart from a tax cut, nothing has changed.
Western voters hark back to the good old days of 1947 to the mid-seventies when this style of government delivered real benefits to the electorate.
Runciman suggests that our liberal democracies are the problem and that we need a new form of government but doesn't have any solutions to offer.
I was born in 1978 so I missed those glory years (our footballing ones too) but the paralysis in the system seems clear now. Brexit has magnified it in the UK but it's clear that the situation is the same across the Western world.
Is Western liberal democracy at an end? Did it achieve all it could by the mid-seventies? Is there a viable alternative.
I couldn't get a link to the podcast so I've put the youtube link below: