La democracia guiada, aunque formalmente democrática, funciona como una autocracia. Las elecciones legitiman esa “democracia guiada”, pero tales elecciones no cambian las políticas de estado. Esas elecciones pueden ser técnicamente libres, pero estructuradas de manera que las personas puedan ejercer sus derechos sin poder cambiar las políticas públicas.
Guided democracy is a government that, although formally democratic, functions as a de facto autocracy. A guided democracy is legitimized by elections, but such elections do not change the state’s policies. The elections may be technically free and fair, but they are cleverly controlled so that people can exercise their rights without being able to change public policy.
The United States have been enormously successful in their immigrants becoming integrated, but today, unlike countries like Canada or Australia, are not able to agree in a system which allows for safe, legal and orderly immigration, because there is not any room for a bipartisan agreement.
Estados Unidos es un país que ha sido extraordinariamente exitoso en integrar a sus inmigrantes, pero que a diferencia de países como Canadá o Australia, hoy no logra concordar un sistema que efectivamente permita que sea segura, ordenada y legal, ya que existe una marcada incapacidad para llegar a un acuerdo bipartidista.
Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes pursue the very same objective: preserve power. Perpetual power, of course, demands the suppression of freedom. In so doing all means are valid. We thus find throughout world history strange bedfellows such as Mr Castro and Mr Videla; Mr Putin and Mr Orban; Mr Duterte and HRH Mohamed Bin Salman.
