Europe: the reduction of democracy promotes the right

A little more than 31,000 votes, which have prevented the victory of the extreme right Austrian represent yet another warning signal for Europe; the finding was discounted and even obvious, but it must also be a starting point for a broader debate. The success of European anti movements is a phenomenon that the migration problem has only accentuated, but that was clearly present even before, thanks to a too liberal policy based on financial management and for credit institutions and their speculations, whose cost has fallen on businesses and families forced to the crisis. Beyond this size is not enough compression was investigated that the democratic processes registered in favor of increasing establishment of technocratic regimes, set to delimiting the possible intervention of a wide variety of subjects, by curbing their concerns, to create the conditions favorable to the development of forces closely linked to speculation and the concentration of wealth at the expense of redistribution of wealth, equality and social cohesion. The reasons for the success of the right in such a scenario might seem out of place, were it not that the left parties and center-left, were, and are often the protagonists of these policies, including anti-democratic, with the excuse to maintain a attitude in the face of crisis responsibility, often past. If, on the one hand, it is true that the center and center-right political management have implemented policies confused from the labor side and outside industry, it is also true that corrective action subsequently could be directed to a greater division of economic, social and political and not only be uploaded to the middle class, with the result of a social cause relegation. The issue of migrant engages well in this picture: the broad social strata who have been eroding their purchasing power and decrease their share of the welfare state, feared losing more positions and transfers from the state to the benefit of refugees and thanks to these beliefs have become easy prey of the political right. The problem coincides with the party management and increasingly progressive movements thereby providing an excessive dominance of the hierarchy, have started making processes that start growing from the top and from the top fell down without proper involvement of the base, that is increasingly moved away and whose instances appear increasingly considered by the leaderships in the name of obscure logic marked by maintaining budgetary constraints too harsh and imposed by those tending to blatantly violate national sovereignty. The distortion of the relationship between the movements classes coincided with the adoption of the liquid form of the party, which provides a more lightweight organization, tending to exclude the masses from the discussion. The fact remains that this trend has not started in recent times by exploiting the distrust of a policy that he could not understand the real needs of citizens, but instead of stopping this direction, the forces that were to be progressive have taken the opportunity to create more ample room for maneuver and less affected by the bases of the militants. Then if you move the same standards of public environmental assessment, state and local authorities, one can not but highlight how they have been eliminated, as was the case in the parties, decision-making spaces, which produced a further step away from politics. The professional politicians always like less than the intrusion of citizens in decision making and tend to keep their distance with the right to vote always studying new exercise voting arrangements that do not allow, in the planned institutional headquarters, the elections, which almost choices pre addressed and do not take into account the increasing phenomenon of abstention. This brings the operating coincidence by political parties, first the right and then the left, with electoral laws increasingly less inclined to provide margins of choice. The perception of the city, about his decision possibility, is very low and this is due to join the dissatisfaction with the deteriorated quality of life and the realization of the increase in inequality in favor of concentrations of wealth to non-light subjects. The sum of these factors contributes to aversion for Europe and the success of populism, that is never a comforting sign. The solutions to get out of this situation are, first of all the relaxation of budgetary constraints and a change of course in building the democratic functioning of the rules, which must not be restrictive but should attempt to broaden the participation and involvement, however, no politicians who embrace these ideas, the situation will worsen.