HAS 'DEMOCKERACY' REPLACED 'DEMOCRACY'?

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t seems to me that there has been an increasing tendency for disaffected people to go onto the streets and call up on their elected governments to remove themselves from office, or to be removed. We have seen this occurring in Europe, particularly in some of the countries from the former Soviet Union, and now, with even greater effect, we have seen it happened in Brazil.

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hat is this about; is it not the case that, if the people, the voting electorate, voted the party or parties which form the government, then that government should remain in power until the electorate is again given the opportunity to vote  and decide which party or parties should form the government?

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t seems to me that the tendency to given in to populist 'demockeracy' should be discouraged, because, what is the point giving the electorate the privilege of voting, only to have a situation where the expression of their 'democratic right' is then overturned by people marching on the streets and demanding that the elected government should give up power? I am aware that, at any given time, the people marching are supported by more than the marchers, but, how likely is it that they would have been supported by the majority of the electorate? And even if they are, it is not the right way to go about changing a government - unless, that is, the government is a dictatorship - in a 'democracy.'

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e have seen it happened in Egypt within the past couple of years, where the military took advantage of people marching against the policies of the then President, Morsi, to have a coup and deposed him, and then use the subsequent elections to 'legitimise' their coup with 'democracy' figleaf.

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re we now seeing a similar situation in Brazil, with the Judiciary and dissident Senators with their own political, religious and nationalist agendas, conspiring to remove the legitimate government of the country?  Then justifying it on the corruption, mismanagement and massive economic problems which have been a major part of Brazil's fabric, not just for the past 13, but probably 30 or more years?

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f course Brazilians, like other politically disaffected people, be they in Greece, which is still being bled dry by the EU's austerity policies towards them, or Venezuela, or Honduras, are fed up with their conditions getting and/or appearing to get worse instead of better. Yet, since when turning to the Right and the Nationalist result in an improvement of the conditions of the poor and lower classes? The very sections of the population who are usually called upon to make greater sacrifices for the nation, while the elites continue to live of their and other people's fat?

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ither you have a 'democracy' or a 'demockeracy' but not both, as Brazil is currently experiencing. They are not compatible. A 'democratic' expression of the will of the electorate brought President Dilma Rousseff to power, a 'demockeratic' expression of the perfidiousness of some members of the Senate has robbed her and the Brazilian people of their 'democracy'. It should not have been so, and Brazilians should now pressure the interim government to call elections as a matter of urgency. 

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aving a government which was probably partly lacking the ability to govern properly and partly was being prevented from doing so, because of the impeachment proceedings, was not good, but having one which is of questionable legitimacy and also hamstrung, is not going to be an improvement.