How To Save Democracy | Yascha Mounk | TEDxBerlin

[@jamespong6588]

Democracy is good when it serves them, Democracy is bad and needs to be "saved" when it doesn't work how they like it to work

[@wolfgangthom9696]

who has more influence in democracy, Reuters, Goldman Sach and Co. and their owners or the mob? How many former goldman sachs employees are in the lead of the right wing parties? Divide et impera 😉

[@silverskid]

There are always those who don't know what they have until it is gone. I don't deny the problem of elites and corporate interests with enormous influence; but in historical context most people in western liberal democracies have known more freedoms and good standards of living than most other societies at most times and places history.

[@TheKillerdrummer007]

All of this is also happening in India. Future is scary, but together we can make it better.

[@abhimanyukarnawat7441]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@DanHowardMtl]

Populism = Democracy where elitists don't like the result.

[@AdamantSeraph]

Wanna save democracy? Choose between freedom and socialism.

[@karlscher5170]

"Einzigartiges Experiment"

[@viriknavarro3165]

I'm not really interested in Yascha Mounk's oligarchy -democracy- In terms of my homeland, The United States, I care about the Republic as the forefathers devised it.

[@Graham-gt4gr]

He talks about populism like it is a bad thing. That means he holds the people in contempt. They really hate you.

[@JimMilton1]

Populism is madness of crowds.

[@sarcasmmuch8905]

Nationalism Patriotism considered the same, Compares nationalism to be Nazism , He's the problem

[@DeathbyPixels]

We're in dark times, but this has given rise to people who know this is the time to speak out. Twenty years from now, we'll have survived another bump in the road, and we'll be better than before.

[@MasterChiefFloyd]

Globalists like this speaker are the bump in the road.

[@123subbatyp]

9,4 million subs and 200 views lol

[@igcmember5504]

fake subs

[@Bob_Suruncle]

@@igcmember5504 The subs are for ted talks, not this video.

[@hanshanserlein576]

Yascha Mounkey

[@davidrapalyea7727]

This guy is the actual arsonist. His baby fascists are out in small numbers throwing chairs, closing free speach and howling at the sky. But I wonder what they want to be when they grow up.

[@dougmasters3743]

LOL, Yascha, I'm going to be bringing my spoon alright, but I doubt you're going to like what I'm hauling with it.

[@ayyub_alromaani]

I don’t take advices from people with pink hair

[@rufuslee-browne6223]

His hair isn't pink, its just the light...

[@Jamie_Johnson]

Yascha Mounk works for Tony Blair, which speaks volumes.

[@chrisl1446]

I agree with this for the most part but I feel like "populism" is either used incorrectly here, or not properly defined within this argument. A populist is just an average citizen who feels they are prioritized less than the elite. In many ways you could argue that the speaker is a populist. He should have used words such as 'fascist' or 'authoritarian', just would've been a bit more accurate

[@erictheodorecartman9869]

The level of cognitive dissonance is just of the charts. A prayer against democracy who lies when he opens his mouth, pretend to be for democracy. Is it really cognitive dissonance or does he exactly know what he is doing?

[@globalterroil3208]

Unfortunately he knows very well what he is doing...

[@braydinjones6301]

Yes, if we don't like either candidate we should just run for office instead. Lol. Totally practical.

[@ChrisPergantis]

Did you consider the anti-capitalistic take over of education in the USA? The removal of most state's rights of autonomy by federalizing the national government is another obvious factor for your results. There is also the advent of the international super corporations that should be considered. There are many more factors to your limited research.

[@lisbelasoares3633]

translate for portuguese, please

[@cielarko6210]

He has a good point. But he misses the point that Iran has taken over the media.

[@BatAtBat]

2:10 Courts are not independent. Freedom of media undermined. Opposition has no fair chance. What he describes fits much more to Germany today, than to Hungary or Poland.

[@strelokoperator7509]

Exactly.

[@debralegorreta1375]

In answering "how did we get here?" Mounk hones in on three factors: (1) economics (US standard of living doubled twice after FDR until Reagan when it flat lined); (2) identity (all democracies were mono-ethnic at their onset, but now immigrants have upset that); and (3) the rise of social media. He then goes on to prescribe how to save democracy. "Each with a spoon of water, TOGETHER we might quench the fire. But does not promises it will work. Concludes with some profound sounding story that's akin to "don't think about elephants because once you do you can't stop." In other words, when Trump tempts you into a dispute, don't even think about him. Fine, but he misses (I say deliberately) the true causes of our predicament, corporatism, in particular the petro-dollar economy. What about the US Oil - US Military cartel, the neoliberal creed? Conspicuously silent as if these weren't even relevant. Yet, is that not why we are where we are? Is that not the root cause of the three issues Mounk honed in on? Neoliberalism? Then Mounk asserts, "the causes are complicated. NO, Mounk, the causes are not complicated unless you live by a neoliberal creed that blinds you to them. Mounk just wants you think he's on your side, so that they don't come after him and his neoliberal colleagues when the pitchforks come out.

[@Taospark]

I can see why Mounk wanted to avoid clearly labeling the political alignment of the populists movements that alarm him to avoid seeming partisan but the anti-Semitic comments here kind of show that was futile. Populism IS a part of the political cycle in any democracy though. The real lesson is figuring out the difference between populists you like, populists you don't like but can civilly disagree with, and those who seek violence or long-term violent and illegal ends.

[@d.l.918]

If populism is part of the political cycle in any democracy, why does democracy need to be saved (from populism)? People on the "left" are happy to point out that the "right" blinds the masses with seemingly easy answers that cannot work and appeal to feelings and sentiments rather than logic and reason. They are not entirely wrong. But what are the "left's" answers to mass immigration if not populism at it's best? Open borders with massively differing welfare systems, mass migration of people with poor educaton into high-tech countries, Islam and it's archaic views on women, homosexuality, the role of the state laws, the use of violence etc. The left has no plausible answers: They deny the existence of problems or lay the blame on bogus straw man reason that can't be checked because they are based on their own assumptions (>lack of logic and reason). Their primary arguments are: It is immoral to stop or hinder migration (>appeal to emotion), hence anyone who tries to do so is immoral. They are populists. Just that they have a different populace to blind with different easy answers.

[@MarcelBorowiec]

Troll, comment copied from other users multiple times. People who read comments in here - please pay attention. Disinformation as a 4th case to be worried about.

[@user-ph9rs6hv4d]

Waste of time!

[@krisskross3076]

LIER

[@murillobonson7978]

democracy is not a good thing, why should it be saved?

[@allinone-qz2gi]

Why isn't democracy a good thing?

[@Bob_Suruncle]

To paraphrase a couple of famous quotes, "The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." and, "Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others"

[@snowdolphvov4193]

why not say this kind of democracy is no good? So annoying that we speak as only current democracy is the only type