Bizalom - hitelesség - őszinteség

The legitimacy of political power is partially hidden (the source for the legitimacy of the rule of law and the constitutional state consists in the theory of the law, which has its origins in natural law theories, i.e. just like in the case of “real-socialist” regimes, in philosophy), and partially located in electoral rivalry and competition (researches pertaining to consumer preferences, as well as their modification, stimulation and neutralization, just as in the case of marketing and commercials, which also organically include the mobilization of moral and aesthetic, and not utilitarian, identity or self-image, in order to choose the “right” brand). It is symptomatic that the underlying theses are not being questioned, as the elites of the day are in total agreement regarding the radical reduction of state debt and budgetary deficit (in other words, and from the other class perspective: the reduction of real income, in order to solve the paradox caused by the reduction of the productive population, as a result of the concomitent stagnation of productivity and the booming technological development, which decreases profits and, as a result, also the level of new investments). As a consequence, this (substantial) identity of content can only be expressed by way of subjective differentiation, as it is the case, for instance, with the fictional contrast between the “corrupt, debauched and buffoonish Berlusconi” and Mario Monti, the “dignified and cool professional”.