Overthrow

In the unanimous opinion of the press and its scientific authorities on protest, 2019 was a year of turmoil in which an unusually large number of people in an unusually large number of countries took their outrage and discontent to the streets in an unusually raucous and radical way. Beyond covering current developments at the scene of the protests and giving critical analyses of the causes of the protests, the media pored over the question whether there wasn’t a “common catalyst” or at least a “connection” between the protests. It's obviously too banal to say that people all over the world, given the living conditions they are subjected to in each country-specific form of the dominant world economic order, in which the most elementary human needs are often left in the lurch, have tons of reasons to rebel against their national administrators. Rather, it's a lot more exciting to say that the world of the Internet and social media, although no longer so new, is now providing

“... I think that we agree on our criticism of the ruling democratic system. Except that this system doesn’t have anything to do with true popular government. Somehow, I think your criticism is misguided, if you want to say something against democracy.” I doubt that we really agree. But first things first: on the one hand, it could be irrelevant what you want to call that form of government which ensures that the citizens elect a government that they regularly entrust their affairs to, despite being constantly at odds with those who are elected and their policies for good reasons. Put “parliamentary system” or “ruling political system” or democracy in quotation marks or whatever. One thing, however, is clear: this political system has governed the citizens here for decades and, for all the complaining by the citizens about what the administrations are doing to them, it has at the same time established itself as a political system that is always appreciated by voters, making it un