Daily politics or the creeping loss of reality

A loss of reality can only occur where bubbles create protected spaces within a social structure that are disconnected from large parts of social reality.

In the 21st century, this is particularly true of the people’s representatives, who have as much in common with their own people as the French nobility did shortly before the Great Revolution – nothing.

On the one hand you face your potential voters during elections, on the other hand you ignore them as soon as the election is over. After that, patronage politics will be pursued with the rich and powerful. The people themselves only have an alibi function here.

How can such a situation arise within a democratic system, when this system is supposed to prevent exactly the situation described above?

Several factors should be mentioned here:

• Political influence is tied to the party dictate
• Politicians do not require any proof of performance / quality or even examinations
• Politicians are insufficiently trained for their actual job – influencing systems
• Political structures attract a certain type of person – the deceiver
• Understanding reality presupposes living in this reality. Power bubbles distort the sense of reality
• Day-to-day business ties up so many personal resources that those affected can’t see the wood for the trees
• Complicated-artificial legal/social systems require too much time and energy
• Practicality and effectiveness are not checked and not corrected and improved retrospectively