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I find this extremely important, because democracy is about people changing their views based on rational arguments and discussions.
Words like equality and fairness and the traditional elections, democracy, these are not really great terms yet.
We must open up our institutions, and like the leaf, we must let the nutrients flow throughout our body politic, throughout our culture, to create open institutions to create a stronger democracy, a better tomorrow.
I believe that Africa has reached an inflection point with a march of democracy and free markets across the continent.
We see it as terrorism versus democracy in that brand war.
I thought this was a basic question to ask in a democracy.
Four hundred years of maturing democracy, colleagues in Parliament who seem to me, as individuals, reasonably impressive, an increasingly educated, energetic, informed population, and yet a deep, deep sense of disappointment.
Ten years ago, however, the promise of democracy seemed to be extraordinary.
George W. Bush stood up in his State of the Union address in 2003 and said that democracy was the force that would beat most of the ills of the world.
In Pakistan, in lots of sub-Saharan Africa, again you can see democracy and elections are compatible with corrupt governments, with states that are unstable and dangerous.
And when I have conversations with people, I remember having a conversation, for example, in Iraq, with a community that asked me whether the riot we were seeing in front of us, this was a huge mob ransacking a provincial council building, was a sign of the new democracy.
Is the answer to just give up on the idea of democracy?
I remember in Iraq, for example, that we went through a period of feeling that we should delay democracy.
So we need to acknowledge that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that 84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken, despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred, and the answer came back that seven percent wanted the United States, five percent wanted France, three percent wanted Britain, and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all, not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
We need to get away from saying democracy matters because of the other things it brings.
The point about democracy is not instrumental.
The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law.
The point about democracy is intrinsic.
Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty.
But if we're really to make democracy vigorous again, if we're ready to revivify it, we need to get involved in a new project of the citizens and the politicians.
Democracy is not simply a question of structures.
But for any of these things to work, the honesty in language, the local democracy, it's not just a question of what politicians do.
If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.
In other words, if democracy is to be rebuilt, is to become again vigorous and vibrant, it is necessary not just for the public to learn to trust their politicians, but for the politicians to learn to trust the public.
But I'm reporting back to you to say quite simply that you can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats its child.
The greatest danger that now faces liberal democracy is that the revolution in information technology will make dictatorships more efficient than democracies.
In the 20th century, democracy and capitalism defeated fascism and communism because democracy was better at processing data and making decisions.
Another technological danger that threatens the future of democracy is the merger of information technology with biotechnology, which might result in the creation of algorithms that know me better than I know myself.
Democracy will find it difficult to survive such a development because, in the end, democracy is not based on human rationality; it's based on human feelings.
And if somebody can manipulate your emotions effectively, democracy will become an emotional puppet show.
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