The enemies of democracy come with different degrees of seriousness. It is not only a question of saying that they don’t like democracy or of doing nothing to help it along. There are many enemies who disguised as democrats, wielding the weapon of demagoguery, cause extreme damage to the essential values of representative democracy, to serious democracy, real democracy albeit with human imperfections. There are demagogues who use and abuse political verbosity, hurting democracy’s prestige, deceiving the people with promises and demands that can not be fulfilled. But there are also demagogues who are seriously interested in going well beyond being noticed and getting public attention with exaggerated promises that are not based on reality. In this group of die-hard demagogues there are some responsible for serious crimes that affect political society and also civil society.

The tenacity of these professional demagogues, so to speak, causes serious harm because it corrupts the good judgment of those citizens who want to respect and support democracy even when they know that this implies imperfections. Those who inspired in poisoned and poisoning demagoguery perpetrate serious abuses while in power or in the quest for it, are not only enemies of the democratic system but also of social peace and political stability, in whatever sensible way the situation be considered. Therefore, they are responsible for many crimes that are committed against a country’s social peace and political stability.

It is important that in every society there are always watchdog groups to denounce those irresponsible demagogues who encourage hatred and destroy the attempts to have a civilized political organization in their countries. And the denunciation must be backed by positive actions in the fight against the enemies of democracy, strengthening it and denouncing those enemies in a clear and categorical way so that the people and its leaders are able to separate the gold from the rubbish, in other words, that they know how to reject the lies and the poison introduced by the demagogues with their cheap talk and often invoking supposedly generous concepts. It is not generosity but a profoundly negative lie that embitters consciences and destroys or maims the possibilities for a civilized democratic life.