Democratic politics is structurally incapable of matching economic and technological speed.

Evidence

Hence the central specifically temporal difficulty of democratic politics proves to be the fact that a participatory and deliberative will formation that includes a broad democratic public is capable of being accelerated only to a very limited extent and under specific social conditions. The aggregation and articulation of collective interests and their implementation in democratic decision making has been and remains time intensive. For this reason democratic politics is very much exposed to the danger of desynchronization in the face of more acceleratable social and economic developments. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 676

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: The longer a decision’s consequences reach, the slower it must be made. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 709; Conservative and progressive politics differ in speed, not direction. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 688; Even functioning democracy requires publics that stay put in place. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 712 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal economic rationality is extinguishing the domains through which democracy materializes. #expands (0.85)
• Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. #expands (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 15
• Campaign finance dependency structurally undermines formal democratic inclusiveness #exemplifies (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 878