Re:Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017)
by p1esk on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:08AM
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How do you measure that?
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Re:Declining trust in government is denting democracy (2017)
by frankfrankfrank on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:26AM
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People's, i.e., human rights are rather well established at this point and it is also not a difficult task to monitor and track whether those people/human rights are respected. Even if it could become a rather labour intensive effort if one wanted to, possibly unnecessarily, monitor and track human rights protections and even defence down to the granular/individual level.
The real challenge here is not at all a practical one, it's a power problem, those who have the power and control … at all the different levels … have absolutely no interest and jealously will combat the actual tracking and recording of things like whether they are protecting, violating, or defending human rights; because they very well would not fare well under the scrutiny of a truly objective evaluation. Those who have power have zero appreciation for anything that will weaken the perception of their power, because most power is a psychological thing.