Some Notes in the Form of a Summary
On the Relationship between Democracy and the Conservative Right

	Three things need to be to be done:

As a phenomenon…

1.	Essentially describe the nature of democracy,
2.	Essentially describe the nature of the Conservative Right, and,
3.	Essentially describe the nature of the relationship between i. and ii.

1. 	The Essential Nature of Democracy

i.	Democracy is a process.
ii.	The dissemination of power is co-extensive with others, i.e., fundamentally democratic even if subverted; being left constituted passively through non-interference/non-resistance and re-constituted actively through its re-dissemination.
iii.	Despite the inherent power differential between any two or more parties.
iv.	Democracy can never be absolutely instantiated, forever a work in progress.
v.	Therefore, ever representative to some degree (and never non-absolutely!).
vi.	Preconditions for the non-subversion of the democratic: rule of law, acceptance of conventions re the same; the stability of a sizable middle class, its re-direction by elites; enfranchisement/re-enfranchisement of the disenfranchised; adequate mechanisms for dealing with disputes and acceptance of its arbitrations.
vii.	The relatively democratic is achieved through active contestation conducted within adequate conventions for conducting the same along with an acceptance of non-absolute decisions exercised by the relative majority (constitutionally checked in such a manner that they do not absolutely impinge upon the rights and obligations of the relevant minorities in that regard).
viii.	The relatively non-democratic exercise of power is performed in an overlooking of the underlying democratic nature of its exercise, i.e., through its subversion.
ix.	The democratic ‘spirit’ is never uniformly spread throughout a society because of the unique, differential evolution of its individualized institutions.
x.	Institutions improve the quality of their governance by instituting proper, appropriate and critically valid democratic reforms.
xi.	Democracy through processes of ‘institutionalization’ is ever in need of vigilance, ongoing scrutiny and appropriate responses, such as reforms, etc.
xii.	Reform is best conducted with some reference to a relatively central constitution, either explicitly formulated or implicitly tacit (through a body of precedents).
xiii.	Democratic governance is best facilitated and finessed through a form of transcendental balance (i.e., an overall transcendental suspension of all relevant factors noted to be in play) (and thereby avoiding the type of situation wherein a ‘tyranny of the many’ replaces a traditional and/or non-traditional ‘tyranny of the few’).
xiv.	Recognition of the need for limitations to be placed upon the over-extended exercise of power by the same parties or actors.
2.	The Essential Nature of the Conservative Right

i.	Divides into two distinct forms of conservatism (?), i.e., relatively non-extreme non-fundamentalist and relatively extreme fundamentalist.
ii.	Both privilege the status quo but the latter desires to re-institute their perception of the same .
iii.	A religious dimension figures in both but more overtly in the latter.
iv.	This overt emphasis upon the religious in a fundamentalistic form de-centers the body politic and destabilizes democratic conventions creating a political pseudo-psychosis (along with an imperfect recognition of the ensuing political discordance).  

3.	The Relationship between Democracy and the Conservative Right

i.	All forms of extremism de-center the democratic body politic.
ii.	Government influenced by an extreme Right often conducted pragmatically despite the proclamation of ideals (with an over emphasis upon ideologically correct/ideological incorrect ‘means’ through an obsession with [impractical] ‘ends’).
iii.  	Blurring of issues dealing with ‘church and state’.
iv.	Other forms of indiscriminate ‘blurring’ between the executive, legislature, judiciary and the fourth estate (through forms of journalistic interference, etc).
v.	From a lack of proper political controls, through their removal or paralysis, symptomatic financial irregularities are promoted through a lack of economic balance, acts of over-spending, inadequate quality control, greater degrees of corruption, etc.
vi.	The manifestation of overt pseudo-psychotic-like phenomena when ideologically driven forms of commitment are allowed to distort political processes (through the ‘sins’ of omission and/or commission, and, a lack of a transcendental sense of balance and distance). Thence the ensuing sense of a discordance with political 'reality'!

4. 	Conclusions

i.	Democracies function better when appropriately democratized (on all levels)!
ii.	Relatively non-existential modes of behaviour need to be re-existentialized!
iii.	Existentialization is achieved when the equivalent of an overall transcendental-like suspension is relatively re-introduced by the body politic…. 

							      Noël Tointon, Sydney, 3.1.04.

P.S: The exercise and dissemination of power is intrinsically ‘democratic’ in its basic exercise! Despite a differential of power between parties the projection of power needs to overcome our resistance to it and co-op our co-operation either actively and/or passively. Hence its relatively fundamental 'democratic' co-extensive nature whether relatively subverted or promoted in its co-extensive dissemination  N.