Economic inequality originated by a devastating concentration of wealth aggravates the trusted crisis and representativeness that today suffer modern democracies.
The levels of inequality that are observed today in the world put us in front of a true humanitarian crisis, since there are millions that die literally abandoned to their own fate by the states and their constitutional systems of protection of rights, and many others that carry out their lives and those of their families in subhuman conditions.
The states fail to stop the tendency towards higher capital concentrations and nothing indicates that they manage to do so, which leads us to another bleak conclusion: The classic state-nation has lost its original function: The protection of its population and has become, at best, in a manager of technical and macro problems economic.
To this institutional helplessness in which millions of human beings are found, we must add another fact that increases the social delegitimation of political systems: peoples not only observe how governments are less and less capable of avoiding the economic deterioration of workers, students and young people, they cannot ensure a dignified old age to their citizens, they fail to control the concentration of wealth and information; They also observe how these governments do not manage to resolve the phenomenal scourge of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, cybercriminality and environmental pollution, all of which progresses, consolidates and grows even in those states with strong constitutional tradition and solid legal systems.
It is predictable and logical that such panorama weakens the confidence in the operational aspect of the system and that for those majorities democracies are mere bureaucracies of Regulation of public affairs unable to reverse the scourge that whips them.
In this context, it becomes inevitable that governance systems are perceived as obsolete constructions, or as a set of political institutions and practices at the service of the elites.
Because the truth is that under the validity of this institutional scheme, the concentration record of more than 45 % of world wealth in the hands of 1 % of the total population has been reached.
It is as predictable as logical that the peoples – especially those of the periphery and the global south, where there are also enough containment networks – value liberal democracy as an obsolete system increasingly distant from themselves and their own needs.
* Guido Risso is DOCTOR IN LEGAL SCIENCES AND SPECIALIST IN CONSTITUTIONALISM, PRofesor Political Law Usi Placido Marin and Constitutional Law in the UBA, DECLARADO “Personality standing out of the Legal Sciences of the City of Buenos Aires”
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