By the time we realize the blessings of democracy, it might be too late. Today, those who is able to write and speak the language talk about democracy all the time.
Democracy makes sense if it is built on transparency, accountability, social quality and sustainability. At this point, we are faced with the management and administration of a process in which the legislative, executive and judiciary, that is, the separation of powers, are intertwined, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It is a chaotic process, almost no matter what it is, in which wealth changes hands uncontrollably, this change is not supervised. A period where the doer gets away with what they do… The sustainability of this situation is not seen as possible…
The authority dominating the process will increase the pressure to maintain its existence and the authority. To do this, people recruited by the use of office, money and public power will become prominent. This was practiced by the British in India. Let there be allegiance!
The existence process of allegiance is also built on the basis of belief and moral values. Instead of correcting the mistakes made, the political institution performs politics on these values. This will result in the destruction of the moral structure and values ​​of the society. The people are first divided into camps. Recruited elites, who worship the power, seek more supporters. Crowds with enslaved souls are required to maintain authority. When the colonial countries are studied, it is seen that the souls of the people are enslaved. The mind is disabled and the instant feelings and allegiance are essential.
It is the power created by the combination of intellectual arrogance and lumpen arrogance that feeds this understanding. Both feet feed each other. While one of the parties is marketing his mind and knowledge for power, the other party has gathered his foresight into power. However, it is these two groups that lose first. Because when the authority gets what it wants, it forgets them first. Despite their loud voices, they are kicked out of the game at their first mistake.
The past has been written with the painful traces of those who think they know everything, have everything and have a management mentality that they believe should be. The elitist group, who is convinced that without their own understanding, they will not have a society from which they emerged, and who are convinced that they have never made mistakes, cannot see the negativities of these processes. The understanding that realizes this negative situation accounts with Magna Carta and has evolved into the understanding of being a sharing society. The real Bourgeois has transformed the society.
Starting from this understanding, the Republic has existed with an understanding that the elites do not have the absolute power and might, that provides permeability between classes in order to carry the people from which it has come to a better future, that builds the set of values, and that puts moral values ​​at the center of life. It puts the mind in the center. However, at this point, the power has transformed into the absolute power. The political institution that does not account to, does not admit that it has made a mistake, and gathered the intellectual richness by force, has become the Bourgeois State before Magna Carta. The sustainability of a political institution that does not want to be held to account, manages with the understanding that everyone and everything should be under his will, and gathers all powers in a mass, does not seem possible. The most perceptible example of this is what happened in Egypt.
The political institution in this understanding eliminates the permeability between the classes that make up the society. It does not allow social layers to affect each other and transform.
However, today's management approach should be able to build the class structure that can be US by giving the society the perception that individuals need each other instead of factionalizing them in its claim for the future. Otherwise, the energy accumulated in the social layers becomes uncontrollable. CHAOS…
Management cannot be sustained if it becomes monotonous by disturbing the values ​​that produce for each other, do not factionalize each other, and share on the scale of needs. Today, the understanding that I must always win might continue to exist by bringing in by winning.
As a matter of fact, the white-collar-blue-collar distinction has disappeared in our country, and approximately 2/3 of the working population has become working with minimum wage. A large part of the population that was supposed to own a house became tenants, and the property turned into an investment tool for those that owns it.
These have destroyed the sense of trust of all levels of the society. Everyone has come to accept his own opinion as the absolute truth and wants to ensure his own justice. This comes from the understanding that the actions of the political institution are seen as a blessing. The bourgeoisie, that has turned into a state, the bourgeois state, has compelled 2/3 of the working population to itself.
By not feeling that they belong to this crowd, the 1/3 elitist group do not accept the responsibility of the past and the wrongdoing of what has been done. Those who have so-called responsibility do not admit that they abuse the sincere feelings of the people and struggle to prevent mistakes from being seen. They argue that what happened is not the fault of the political establishment, instead the past is reflected in the present or there are other reasons. They do not have the courage to face the consequences of their actions. They struggle to convince the crowds as well as they make themselves believe that they are the hope itself under all circumstances and conditions.
Moreover, they embrace the predictions of the great leaders of the past, so that they do not realize the trauma of denial they have experienced.
All that has been done, experiences, new concepts and new definitions do not remove the opportunity of creating value and new systematics, as well as the process stands in front of us as an opportunity for social reconciliation. Those who say WE, ALL of us, not those who say I AM, will create value. Those who create COMMON INTEREST, not personal interests, will define the new leadership. Those who prioritize not only their own perspectives but also merit, who work for knowledge and reason-centered, transparent, accountable social quality, and those who strive for the SYSTEM, not the INDIVIDUAL, will shape the future.
In order to achieve this, the cornerstone of the legal system, the CONSTITUTION, will come to forward. The answer to this question must be sought on the right ground. Does the state protect the constitution or does the constitution protect the state?
If the constitution protects the state, patriotism comes forward, if the state protects the constitution, the nation comes to the fore. This eliminates negotiability. First of all, the constitution should regulate negotiability in order to live together without causing class, sect and ethnicity discrimination in the society.
A constitution that is merely a set of norms cannot provide cultural consensus. The norms, which are intended to be implemented in order to ensure the order in which the individual feels safe and believes that what he is doing is not worth it, should facilitate access to the right to a fair life.
The implementation of this finding is not enough alone. Sustainability of accessing to justice must be provided. This will be possible by making the society focus on WINING BY CONSOLIDATING instead of making the society believe that they will win by highlighting the abundance of existing differences. There is a need for regulation where everyone can express themselves freely.
Two basic understandings based on negotiation and growing together - winning can only be possible by realizing JUSTICE. The understanding of “justice for all” should be crowned with the understanding of JUSTICE EVERYWHERE that prioritizes moral values.
17 May 2022
'Mr. Dursun YASSIKAYA