{"id":31835,"date":"2018-10-29T11:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31835"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:57:19","slug":"getting-back-on-the-democratic-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/getting-back-on-the-democratic-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting back on the democratic path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/getting-back-on-the-democratic-path\/article22492240.ece\"><b>Getting back on the democratic path<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India and countries worldwide find existing governmental systems <\/span><b>unable to cope with contemporary challenges or people\u2019s expectations, some even with basic needs.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Particularly alarming is the condition in democracies, where the ideals and concepts, the very essence of their being, are threatened.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the roots of democracy?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democracy depends on the <\/span><b>Enlightenment\u2019s ideals.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These ideals are the <\/span><b>ceaseless expansion of liberty and equality, the impartial functioning of impersonal law and institutions, the reconciliation of society\u2019s differences by accommodative compromise, above all the primacy of reason<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What needs to be done to uphold democracy?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need a <\/span><b>organised body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make the Indian system work and modernise. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to forget the excuse that politics is the art of the possible but remember <\/span><b>leadership is the art of making even the impossible possible.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common mass is ultimately responsible to uphold democracy but <\/span><b>political leaders have to lead.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting back on the democratic path Context: India and countries worldwide find existing governmental systems unable to cope with contemporary challenges or people\u2019s expectations, some even with basic needs. Particularly alarming is the condition in democracies, where the ideals and concepts, the very essence of their being, are threatened. What are the roots of democracy?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/getting-back-on-the-democratic-path\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting back on the democratic path<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930174},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}