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[...] These traditional parties, seen from the lobbies around them, make promises they don't keep, and divide the population on secondary issues, to avoid social demands from crystallizing. Trust is broken for me at all levels. In the face of this failure, it is urgent to rethink our political system. The suppression of political parties, as radical as it may be, deserves to be considered. It would allow for the liberation of citizen speech, to favor the emergence of new ideas and new forms of engagement. I then propose several alternatives. On the one hand, direct democracy, which would allow citizens to participate in political decisions. [...]
[...] But why are these political parties not pushed towards a radical change? For me, the inefficacy of political parties is largely linked to their dependence on capitalism and the bourgeoisie. This liberalism actively contributes to the maintenance of the patriarchal system. Firstly, we have always observed that the financing of parties relied on donations from individuals and companies. On the other hand, the media have a necessary influence on the election and maintenance of political parties. In fact, the media are largely controlled by large media groups. [...]
[...] And yet, in theory, political parties are essential actors of democracy. They are supposed to represent different currents of opinion, structure public debate, and allow the formation of competent elites. Thus, they should be the link between citizens and institutions, ensuring that the voice of the people is heard and taken into account in political decisions. The voice of the people is what is called the voice of preference, the indicated term explains from then on the citizen's wish to be represented by a party, a political person, more than another. [...]
[...] A growing distrust is observed towards traditional political and economic systems. Movements like the Yellow Vests, initially carriers of socio-economic demands, were able to express a frustration that the far right is still instrumentalizing today. Pierre Vercauteren, a political scientist at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, highlights a crisis of representative democracy over the past decade.2. Political alternation, abstention, and distrust towards political elites create a fertile ground for extremist parties. These latter offer a discourseanti-system" appealing to a part of the electorate, capitalizing on euroscepticism, rejection of liberalism and a sense of downward mobility. [...]
[...] How could France survive without Europe, when it was deeply in public debt. The same observation is made again in the United States, where the influence of lobbyings is striking. At the time, in 2020 during the campaign that challenged Donald Trump to Joe Biden, the National Rifle Association of America has donated more than $31 million to Donald Trump's campaign, supporting him in the legalization of gun ownership in the United States.4 Also, the same candidate received more than seven donations worth billions of euros, from American energy companies. [...]
