From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that’s true, didn’t he have everything to go through with the coup?
From what I understand, the military high command supported Yoon even after the assembly voted down martial law. If that’s true, didn’t he have everything to go through with the coup?
Imho no. Apparently (I have not dealt with South Korean politics before this) he was quite unpopular to beginn with. Blatantly disregarding the elected parlament would have destroyed any resemblance of a “lawful” takeover and might have provoked protest from all parts of society.
Also afaik saying he lifted martial law after the assembly vote is wrong in the sense that martial law was lifted by the assembly already. Pressing on would have put him in breach of the constitution. Of course he probably couldn’t care less but keeping the appearance of still being a democracy is import. Most autocracy’s nowadays work this way. People get to choose but the guy on top gets to pick the options.
Managed Democracy!
If the people voted by filling out Facebook quizzes
Representative Democracy.
If Representative Democracy isn’t democracy, then Switzerland is the only true democracy.
I do struggle to feel that representative democracy is true democracy, because it usually struggles to represent what people really want.
In the age of computers we should be voting for everything as a collective.
Eh… maybe not. People can get tricked into voting for stupid policies. California literally voted in a proposition that classify “gig app” (like Uber or Doordash) workers as “Independent Contractors” rather than “Employees”, because of a lot of propaganda.
Should we? At that point, the real decisions are made by those with the most charismatic performance.
What pure democracy assumes is that the competent decision will be more popular.