Local democracy and national democracy for Ireland-the social model or the political model?
There are wide cultural disparities between North and South in Ireland. In the South,the rigorous political model and a strengthening bureaucracy and administariat and loose policing is favoured,these days. In the North,a loose social model and overarching bureaucracy and a police-medical service with a grip of steel holds the North in a vice-like grip as it has done since the rise of Ulster loyalism and counterfeit nationalism in the 1880's...a blissful life, indeed,under our British masters sucking the life-blood of this country away,its youth and wealth of food and superior cultural-scientific technique while endowing most of us with an extraordinarily generous social state.
Which model,then,for a reunited island which is coming at us at a rate of knots...?!?!?
I DON'T F...ING KNOW...there are more advantages in the Southern system...Whatever one might say about the Gardai,these days,at least treat people with respect and exercise very soft-focus policing...BUT MANY PEOPLE GET LEFT BEHIND...the North is much more equitable and socially developed...
I propose a hybrid,more on the English social democratic model than a neo-liberal,dog-eat-dog,devil-take-the-hindmost laissez-faire model.
A meeting of minds rather than a clash of heads,therefore...
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9.1.2022
Participatory democracy. The American model
The jury system in civil and criminal courts has long been the model of participatory democracy in the US but is frowned on in civil law jurisdictions where there is no proper argumentation of legal points or argument over facts at issue or in dispute.
Despite my earlier student enthusiasm for the Continental system,I must say that these jurisdictions are not law-governed countries or states nor can they ever be while the judicial process is only a matter of enforcement,not justice.
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