Democracy’s self-destruction.

EDITORIAL Primer Poder AC – Board of Directors

Democracy depends on People’s voting decisions.

Usually, we ignore most actions from good people with Power while these are
not expounded properly. However, those from bad people are widely
acknowledged with poor details as these have an emotional impact, used to
seduce a broad audience. Who are to blame, the Media or the audience?

By mid april 2023, The Economist’s Editor-in-Chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes,

wrote: “It’s the nature of the news business, and of many of the cover stories
that I oversee, to dwell on what is wrong with the world.”

At last, someone from a global influence media tells openly that the negative
attracts more massive attention than the positive. When each business (as a
media network, for instance) offers what its market demands, whose is to
blame? The media or their audience?

After reading some scientific analysis about the origin of a massive attitude that
focuses attention on the negative, some conclusions highlight our primitive and
natural protection instinct since it is part of our fear alarm system. Of course, the
ignorant are most susceptible to this phenomenon, as instincts control their
behavior.

Such a situation becomes a peril that Democracy encloses when giving voting
power to people who set our fate without adequate training to build
conclusions after analyzing reality by focusing on facts above their imagination
and emotions.

Democracy is each citizen's first job as it gives him the power to set fate for
himself and the rest on which his living quality depends. Do you still think
learning a technical career is above any other priority?
On what for will you use your technical knowledge if all those environments on
which your profession and family living quality depend cannot offer growing
opportunities because of your misused voting power? Ask those migrants who
left their destroyed homeland because they did not know how to use their
voting power as citizens responsible for their fate. Which is the top priority?

On one extreme, Democracy is weak where poor education for personal and
democratic values exists, reducing most voting decisions to emotional
conclusions - just as misleading as they might be. On the other extreme Anti-
Democratic forces aim for their benefit by planting false fears in voters' majority
to destroy confidence in current democratic factors. A marketing conclusion
could be that the negative has more market than the positive. We can never
escape from the social axiom: Things are not as much as they are, but as we are.

In the same Editorial, Mrs. Minton affirms: “ In most of our editions we focus on
the astonishing performance of America’s economy. Nearly four-fifths of
Americans tell pollsters that their children will be worse off than they are. In fact
America has sustained its decades-long record as the world’s richest, most
productive and most innovative big economy. Indeed, it is leaving its peers ever
further in the dust. Only those in über-rich petrostates and financial hubs enjoy
a higher income per person. American firms own more than a fifth of patents
registered abroad, more than China and Germany put together. ”

When reading The Economist experts' positive perception about the American
economy, contrasted by 80% of Americans' doubtful future perception (as
pollsters refer to), we have to ask ourselves, do people know what is positive or
negative in their lives? Such contrast between experts and public opinion
happened during Venezuela's last democratic years before a criminal group won
the 1998 election to destroy the democratic system. Most people had the wrong
vision of what was negative, so -during the 21st century- they bitterly
understood the lesson when Castro-Chavistas “socialists” destroyed all positive
factors that operated until 1999.

How to determine what is positive for a living quality or not is the factor that
triggers the voting decision. However, in any fate decision, not understanding

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how to acknowledge positive and negative represent severe perils. The Free
World's worst threat against it is that in most democracies, ignorance controls
People voting Power. Emotion submits most fate decisions by replacing logic
and knowledge. Do you still believe that in democracies, schools have to
operate only as technical instruction centers? You might get an answer by re-
examining the Venezuelan case when in 1998, free vote lost democracy even by
having the highest level of school graduates in their history.

How many free countries are already eroding their democratic system through
democratic instruments, as voting power is still a slave of massive emotional
thinking?

Let’s remember that a manager has to capitalize positives. Here is where

management quality sets differences between the best ones and the rest. All
solutions and improvements crop up from the best use of current positive
factors. Negative ones are always valid as alarms to prevent failures, but these
are only references.

We can never forget that We (the Citizens) are Democracy’s managers, so

capitalizing positives is part of our duty, as being aware of negatives shall always
be part of our protection system. Both factors together build an effective
operation towards evolution. Else, we shall be destroying our Democracy.