Political Pleasantness

When politicians and government employees do not listen to reason, they do not respect democracy. When politicians and government employees do not have empathy, they cannot understand democracy. Without democracy, a society is not politically pleasant for anyone but the corrupt, the cruel, the greedy and the otherwise incompetent. How do you define competence in relation to democracy? Where is democratically pleasant journalism to be found, and how do you identify it?  What is pleasant journalism in relation to democracy as political pleasantness? You may be quite surprised to find information online about democracy as political pleasantness. You may even find it quite surprising that you have access to that information. But what will you do with the information? What do you expect it to do for you? How are you contributing to pleasant journalism? How does pleasant journalism assist a suitably democratic practice of political pleasantness?  Who is actually meant to be encouraged to a

People on the left of the political spectrum often make the mistake of believing the world would be better if everything was guided by governments. People on the right of the political spectrum often make the mistake of believing the world would be better if everything was guided by businesses. Both sides are wrong. They mistake power for control. Power is the ability to make decisions. Control is the ability to prevent decisions from being made. What is the basis of your power?  Who and what are you able to control, and why? What do you have the power to do, and how? Who and what influences your ability to make decisions? Real democracy is about working together pleasantly to address the causes and consequences of unpleasantness.  Bullying is always unpleasant for its victims and must be stopped appropriately.    And all harassment should be regarded as bullying, as should all other unreasonable social pressures. But how should reasonable social pressures be regarded? How do yo