2008/10/21

People interest and people will

While we wait for comments coming from Athens about the definition of Direct Democracy...let's go forward and introduce the new question : how do we define people interest and people will.
I propose to your examination the following considerations :
The people will, coming from the people interest, the line defined by the majority of the Citizens, can be looked at as the Nation interest if we consider the Nation as the assembly of all Citizens.
Therefore I consider the Nation interest as the condensed interest of the Citizens, looking at the relationship both ways : the Citizens form the Nation, and the Nation cares for the Citizens.
In other words, the Citizens have to learn thinking as a Nation, not as individuals.

All too often in the past the Nation interest, as defined above, has been bent in favour of other interests : individuals and lobbies have had their own interests prevail over the Citizens will.
Here we have exposed the main difference between Representative Democracy and Direct Democracy, here we have come to the core of the matter.
Now it's your turn, my friends

Federico Tonini

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