A rich tapistry

I was fascinated watching the assembly in the European Parliament of the MPCs  who had invited the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to a debate on the Greek situation.
A multitude of different views and ideologies were gathered to vent their opinions in open debate.
We must acknowledge the fact that this is a debate which wouldn't be condoned in Russia or China where in either country we never hear any dissent, other than from people behind bars or from their deathbed.
Politics is a minefield of differing opinion, opinions arising from ideologies, different cultures, even different religious assemblies. Democracy is a delicate flower since it is a concept based on valuing each individual to use his/her discretion having listened to argument freely given in an open society. The vagrancies of each person his/her willingness to be swayed by opinion, much of it in the media, provide a hotchpotch, a multi coloured tapestry in which positive direction is often unsure, where decisions are made and unmade but where at least it's yaw yaw not war war.
The MEPs cover the whole gambit of political persuasion, each fervent, each secure in their own views. 
It's a strange phenomena amongst human-beings this political commitment, (like the religious commitment), a sort of mental construct regarding the way society and its organs should be organised and the values relating to its objectives. 
People feel driven to proclaim ! People who are on the whole rational, become irrational in their fervour to describe the promised land.
The theatre of a debating chamber where, not only is their a wide mix of political views but an even wider cultural landscape to draw on. Impassioned they leapt to their feet, for or against whilst Tsipras sat and listened. When his turn came there were no concrete steps as to how, only platitudes as to why and we were left once again, waiting to see !!