Political Parties Disgracing Democracy: Cognitive Dissonance in Finland

By Books on Demand

Only 25% of the Finnish people agree having a functioning democracy in Finland. This book is revealing how political parties are jeopardizing democracy. Their false way of act is present every day and everywhere, where the parties participate in decision-making. This includes the organs in towns, and The Parliament of Finland. In the book, the trade union action against The Constitution of Finland is also revealed.

The book gives suggestions how to improve democracy in Finland. There is still hope not to join the human action in the assumed error.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Jan 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9789523300828

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Table Of Contents

Political Parties Disgracing Democracy

Introduction

Grassroots Level

National Level

Searching for The Future

Features in The Democracy

Copyright

Political Parties Disgracing Democracy

Cognitive Dissonance in Finland

Political parties call people to join the human action in the assumed error.

Introduction

This book is revealing how political parties are jeopardizing democracy in Finland. Their unrespectful way of act is present every day and everywhere, where the parties participate in decision-making. This includes both grassroots level and nation level. This includes the organs in towns, and The Parliament of Finland.

'The Water Tower in The Middle of The Market-Place' is an illustrative story, including real-life elements. The story reveals, how the power-play of parties is conducted in a small town in Finland. The story goes as follows.

Mr. Tapani Ryti is an elderly gentleman, and totally sick of the political life in his hometown. During the years, Mr. Ryti had noticed several occations, where the majority opinion was rejected in the decision-making. This was extremely annoying to him, and made him to think the meaning of democracy and the free-will of a man. Mr. Ryti decided to show to the system. He decided to give to the party-people a lesson to remember. He decided to show, how grazy decisions the party-people make. He decided to get a license to build a water tower in the middle of the market-place. A totally stupid project would show, how rotten the system is.

The town council has the highest authority to decide the matters. In this case, the town council included 35 members from six political parties. The two major parties had 11 seats each, concluding together the 22 seat majority. This power situation was present in every decision-making group in the town. The seats were divided accordingly. This system is normal and logical in every