Tibet movement is hotting up. Recently I read some new articles cursing communism for violation of human rights in China. There were sharp criticisms of Chinese communism. I am not sure this world would be a better place if all countries had been democratic. I would never want China to be a democratic country. Let's discuss why.
American democracy is nowhere near democracy. I'm against American democracy not just because I'm against representative democracy, but also because the election is a total fraud(same thing for Canadian election as well). It is but a fox hunt for the rich and famous. The power is ALWAYS on the hands of two corporate parties. The People never have someone to speak for them(michael moore doesn't count).
1. Elect a president and forget about making a change for 4 years really doesn't do much.
2. Only TWO parties are capable of running the government. How could American government criticize countries with one party dictatorship? Its like someone with a thread of hair left on his skull, yet he's still mocking a completely bald guy.
3. If I do recall correctly, every single elected president in the US history had more money at his disposal than his opponents during the election campaign. In other words, ALL elected presidents had a financial advantage against his opponents. Coincidence? I don't think so.
4. Mass manipulation is employed on every occasion. Especially in the case of Bush's second term election. For example, a while ago the Republicans tried to get rid of the inheritance tax(or reduce it, i forgot). But it was highly popular at the time(only 25% are against it), so the Republicans came up with an idea to decrease its popularity. What they did was, instead of calling it inheritance tax, they started calling it "death tax". This, an obvious trick of manipulation and intellectual oppression, actually worked. People didn't like the name and thus went against it. What do u think of that? cool, eh? To me, its just disgusting. Democrats use it too.
The point I was trying to make on my last paragraph was that, a government (party) that manipulates instead of informing its citizens does not deserve the title of democracy!
How is a democracy supposed to work when its citizens are not informed?
When they lack the basic facts and information upon which to base their judgments?
How are they going to make the right decision when the parties are trying to manipulate them, deprive them of their rights to know?
How do u inform the People? Give the media to the People, instead of large corporations attempting (and always succeeding) to influence politics! The freedom of media is absent in US! Think about it, do u EVER watch any news channel others than the big ones like Fox?
Guess what, they are under the "discretion" of big corporations attempting to influence politics for their own gains!
"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."
Just so u know, I am for:
Local democracy & direct democracy, not representative democracy
Decentralization of power (distributing power to the local population, let them solve their own matters, get them involved)
Freedom of media, break free of corporation domination in media. More perspectives, even the extreme ones(except for fascists, because its offensive).
And last but not the least,communism never existed in china.
Hi Mr. handsome. I understand your criticism of western democracy and it makes much sense.I always had similar thoughts but could not put that way. :)
ReplyDeletethe points that u actually raise are a draw back of every system... and ur solution the decentralisation of powers- believe me never works.
ReplyDeleteevery time a community is sick of centralised power ( say USSR) starts to crave for decentralisation - then it encounters anarchy - then again heads back to centralisation.
we in india experimented with local self governance from 1965-75
the under Prime minister indira gandhi it was back to centralization.
the again post 1984 there was a lot of assertion to civic bodies,
but 1990's saw a centralisation again....
so it just goes back and forth.
as a matter of fact i dont know how to deal with this problem that u raise
Decentralization is in motion for the past few hundreds of years... The "democracy" we have today is the result of the decentralization of power (giving power to the people).
ReplyDeleteI see the eventual goal of democracy as bring forth anarchy. Thats what democracy is, really. In old times, people considered democracy to be such a scarry idea and labeled it as anarchy. There is nothing scarry about anarchy at all.
Technically, im not a an anarchist, but instead a Marxist. However: The future society, Marxists conluded, will be some sort of an anarchy.
In the past a few movements of decentralization failed for many reasons. One is that the society is not yet ready for it.
Like I said b4, a democracy(anarchy) can only function when its people are informed. But due to many issues(such as communication, broadcasting), its impossible to inform people in the third world.
But my suggestion for countries like US and Canada is entirely possible.