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Democracy, a shared nationality does more than promote general political…

- - - - Trust: Trust is a condition that makes our society work as a cooperative enterprise.
        
        trust between rulers and ruled is declining.
        
        This is because the rulers have forgotten that they rule by permission of the ruled, by their consent. They are not masters but servants.
        
        Yet ultimately the lack of trust comes down to ourselves. A society that can’t trust itself to respect the law if unsupervised: eg. speed cameras
    - - Most Western democracies, have gained and stayed in office by bribing voters and building a sense of entitled access to other people’s money — taxpayer money, to be precise. Convincing voters that their needs, both vital and imagined, can be provided by “My Government” has led to dishonest promises and unscrupulous borrowing.
      - definition
        
        the abuse of entrusted power for private gain
        
        Regulates by
        
        NACC
        
        aim to
        
        restore popular faith in democratic politics
- - - - secure more power and more prestige. ot for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.
        
        Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
        
        Obsession
        
        generally claim superiority for it not only in military power and political virtue, but in art, literature, sport...
        
        demands conformity
        
        Dominant groups demand that governments enforce cultural conformity, challenging both the individual freedom and the vitality that comes from cultural creativity.