Democracy……Where is it?
By rovermadman
@rovermadman (80)
New Zealand
April 12, 2008 4:12am CST
Firstly, what is democracy. Democracy is where where the government carries out the will of the majority.
If that is the case then how many democratic countries are there? I would argue that the answer to this question is NONE.
For all the claims of politicians of so called democracies I would ask, when do you actually carry out the wishes of your citizens?
You are elected on the only day that your country is a true democracy….election day.
After that you ride roughshod over the people introducing laws that the people do not want. What do you call a country like that…..A dictatorship?
I challenge any government of any “democracy” to always listen to what the majority of your citizens want. Now that would be a true democracy…..
2 responses
@pillusch (1147)
• Mexico
14 Apr 08
There is a saying that democracy is a lousy form of running a country, but it's still the best. Now, I wouldn't call myself a 'Democrat', simply because democracy is a pipedream, a pipedream however that works well for developed nations, like the ones in Europe, US, etc. But that's where it stops. I live in Mexico, and democracy here is even more of a farce. It was introduced only, after 70 years of totalitarian rule by a one party system WHICH WORKED JUST FINE, because the gringos up north, i.e. the US, insisted on it, so that Mexico could reap the rewards of a free trade agreement. And I do not applaude the West's insistence that everybody else on this globe, like the Arabs, for example, or Cuba, should have a democracy. Where is the essence of democracy if you make people adopt it at gunpoint or by the threat of economic sanctions?
@rovermadman (80)
• New Zealand
14 Apr 08
This is pretty typical of the west, particularly the americans, interfering in other peoples business in most cases making the people worse off than they were before.
Just look at Iraq.
@MrNiceGuy (4141)
• United States
5 May 08
What you are thinking of is impossible. You can't listen to everyone because everyone has different opinions. You can only do what you think is best for the country.
The US itself isn't even a direct democracy, its a representative democracy. And leaders aren't technically bound to the voters' will except if they want to be reelected.
And no, a dictatorship isn't when an elected leader doesn't do what he is asked, that just makes him a bad leader. Equating the two in an attempt to poke fun of the US (it seems) is ignorant rhetoric.
