WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Activists with Shutdown DC march around the White House complex, on November 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. Ballot counting continues in many critical battleground states as the final results in the U.S. presidential election remain too close to call.
Three pre-eminent speakers join IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed to discuss the threat to civility, the erosion of institutional trust, the rise of authoritarianism, and how Canada and other countries can protect liberal democracy.Activists with Shutdown D.C., a group that aims to 'preserve the pillars of democracy' rallied on the streets of Washington, Nov. 5, 2020.
Roberto, if I could ask you: in 2021, in addition to being a judge on the Supreme Court, you were also head of the Supreme Electoral Court in Brazil when then President Bolsonaro criticized you publicly. What happened?Roberto: Now, I've had many years of psychoanalysis. So whenever someone behaves improperly towards me, I know it's the other person's problem. And, what happened then? I never took it personally. It was a institutional problem for me.
Vikas: So now, I would say that the biggest threat facing democratic institutions comes from your giant neighbour to the south. The United States is rightly regarded as the motherlode of democracy. And yet there is no advanced industrial democracy in the world today that is more ideologically divided and more politically dysfunctional than the United States today.
In 2021, the Brennan Center for Justice counted 22 laws enacted in 14 states since the 2020 US election, restricting ballot access, including mail voting. Social media has not only made conversation difficult, but it has even led to people killing other people – I mean, Facebook and Rohingya...Vikas: Yeah. So it's going to be very difficult. I mean, I start my new yet to be released novel with the sentence: 'The most valuable thing in the world is not money. It is attention.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Rosie Abella says social media's failure stems from not having a 'solid enough free foundation. It was fertile soil that social media landed in and allowed all of this hate to fulminate.' I think law is very important, but you need to have a social movement behind it or it won't happen. The Brown was actually enforced with the Civil Rights movement. So you cannot change that world through law or through court decisions.
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