« ` March 2019, about the functioning of democracy` Question: Is it still possible to reconcile the people and the elect? Answer: I think so. What is striking about the "yellow vests" movement is the high demand they send to politics. Take their claim around the Citizens' Initiative Referendum (RIC): it is not to claim "all the power for the Soviets" but to argue that, "on a number of subjects, you are not trusted, so we want to be consulted". I do not see, in principle, what would prohibit responding to that request. ` ` What is problematic today is not the democratic principle but how to translate it and make it work. ` ` The parties are all in bad shape, but who is to blame, again? Have their leaders made them welcoming organizations that contribute to collective intelligence? Let us not dream of a mechanism that would exempt us from answering these questions. source Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/03/11/marcel-gauchet-je-crains-une-anomie-democratique_5434272_3234.html »
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