Mr Clarkson, hugely popular TV presenter, has attacked democracy in an article today. He seems to represent a growing hard right trend to seek to make democracy more exclusionary. GOP trying it in the USA. Tories promoting it in UK. How long before we see it here?
All processes of power, democratic or not, are based on how much finance you have to persuade people to adopt your views and plans. Simple as that.
Never had much time for him since he clocked Oisin Tymon over missing his dinner
The right trying to subvert democracy and limit freedom of speech?
I, for one, cannot believe it.
OP would you be getting all hot and bothered if Sean Moncrieff or Oliver Callan wrote an article 'attacking democracy'? Because that would be an approximate Irish equivalent....
No one else is solving the problems, so it's easy to see why people are willing to give someone else a go.
He is harldy, at this stage of his life, angling to become one of those 'tells it like it is' sh!t-merchants?
To quote Jeremy Clarkson:
”Oh no! … anyway”
Oh no, is Jeremy being deliberately 'controversial' again?
He also fails to acknowledge, in most western democracy's the choice of candidates "The people" are given seem to be getting further and further disconnected from society .
In the states you have to at least be a millionaire to even stand a chance of entering a primary .
Britain is run by graduates of 1 or 2 universities , we have political "families" here ourselves who have serious sway in communities .
South Park hit the nail on the head , it's either a douchebag or a Turd sandwich .
He's absolutely right.
Look how many stupid people here think that Sinn Fein will solve their problems!
Just wait until the TikTok generation get to vote.
I'd be happy to go back to a monarchy taking over politics or even a benign dictatorship like some of the Gulf states. Not an authoritarian one like the Biden admin.
This is what happens when you pay vast amounts of money to smug dunderheads whose intelligence is limited to basically going “vroom vroom”, to do just that, on tv. They start getting notions that their going beyond vroom vrooming in public somehow won’t show them up as utter morons. A big fail there, Jeremy, and as unexpected as a rainy day in Ireland.
Considering the popularity of the absolute scutter that he produces for television he might have a point here..
He understands that foreign presidents aren't elected to represent his views rights?
Jeremy and a few others who think like him don't really get what democracy is... they only understand their idea of what politics should be.
Sounds exact same taught process, as nearly every liberial said post Brexit referendum,
A worryingly large amount of people across spectrum,dispise democracy,if it geos against their views
The fact he would choose joe biden as a reason to justify monarchy is a brain-fart nearly as large as clarksons ego
Democracy is not the problem.
The ease at which voters are swayed and the inability to be open to different viewpoints allows the unqualified and lunatics to gain power.
Well until the shinners are in power. A lot might agree with him then.
I wonder what it is that this gool finds so terrifying about Biden. Trump is the one he should have been terrified of.
Emmanual Macron is a good President and is neither of the words he said also Micheal D Higgens but sure Jeremy Clarkson probably does not know who he is.
He is right about the other two do but neither of them are as bad as Putin but then Russia is not a Democracy so I understand why the tool never mentioned him.
I am surprised he did not mention the Ukrainian President maybe because he is a great and brave man. Probably go down as one of the best Presidents of any country in the World and certainly one of the bravest.
The dog on the street knows that US democracy is a fallacy.
Geriatrics make poor presidents.
People are idiots, nothing new about that. But it is moronic that out of all the options it is apparently Joe Biden that is the "terrifying" one. What a troll.
It seems to be an attack on populism not democracy.
He’s bang on the money, people are idiots
Attention seeking journalist seeks attention.
In fairness he has a point.
I am glad I've never watched any of the "boys driving cars" show he and his sidekick idiots ever made. I can not and could never stand that mouth piece.
Edit ..
I didn't even really read what he said 😝... But he just annoys the crap out of me.
Benign dictatorship, the only true form of government.
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