{"id":191,"date":"2025-04-22T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:58:08","slug":"the-silent-hostage-of-patience-when-democracy-blows-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/the-silent-hostage-of-patience-when-democracy-blows-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The silent hostage of patience: when democracy blows away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When democratic norms are eroded, minority rights curtailed or press freedom curtailed, it rarely happens overnight and even less often with a bang. They are often slow shifts. These changes leave us speechless, sometimes not yet beyond our pain threshold, and try our patience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We wait and see. We hope it won&#8217;t get any worse. We think someone else will hopefully take care of it. This collective patience gives room to authoritarian tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authoritarian tendencies are on the rise worldwide. Democratic culture, understood as the search for the largest possible majority, is being reduced to an ultimate electoral formalism.<br>Democracy thrives on engagement, vigilance and objection when boundaries are crossed. It requires being uncomfortable, standing up and speaking out &#8211; not tomorrow or next week, but at the moment of challenge.<br>Those who are too patient in critical times risk democracy fading away quietly while we wait. Patience may be a personal strength, but for democracy it is often the most dangerous form of apathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patience erases democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When democratic norms are eroded, minority rights curtailed or press freedom curtailed, it rarely happens overnight and even less often with a bang. They are often slow shifts. These changes leave us speechless, sometimes not yet beyond our pain threshold, and try our patience. We wait and see. We hope it won&#8217;t get any worse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-cap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}