This is a thought provoking comment written by JI from REFLECTING BY THE SHORE in my previous post FLAWS IN DEMOCRACY - PART TWO. I am sure you have your own thoughts on the subject which I hope you will willingly share with me. JI is a wonderful writer from UK and I am sure you will be interested in becoming his friend. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VISIT HIM.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you think democracy is flawed in India then the same is probably true elsewhere. In the UK, what we are increasingly seeing is an elective dictatorship. The big decisions are actually made by a small group of people including the prime minister, his closest aides and some top civil servants. There is in fact very little democracy at the heart of government. These people are more influenced by economic and geostrategic considerations than actually trying to make the lives of their citizens better. That's why, for example, everything is being privatised including the roads. The gap between the rich and poor is getting wider and wider by the day.
It's actually laughable when Western politicians say they are intervening in other countries because they want to bring democracy there. Democracy is simply a fig leaf for regime change. Western politicians actually fear democracy - real democracy. That's why they have engineered so many coups in various countries in the past. Real democracy works for the interests of the people, not for big multinational companies.
I still think democracy is "the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." It has to work for the people, rather than for corrupt and unaccountable elites.
this is spot on for the US as well...the line between the ruling class and the average person is growing larger daily....
ReplyDeletegreat picture of you up top as well joseph
I have not visited your friends blog but will do so after I comment here, Joseph. I think that democracy is no longer democratic ... at least not here in the United States. I grew up believing that the democratic thing to do was to share with those less fortunate but this is a thing of the past. I pray that President Obama gets a 2nd term so that some of his ideas can come to fruition.
ReplyDeleteThe "democracy" that we have today is not the one that I grew up with. Here in the United States we were taught that the democratic thing was to look after our less fortunate brothers & sisters but try to tell that to the crazy bunch that is trying to unseat President Obama in the next election. It's all about power and I pray that we in the 99% will finally have a say ... but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteLove your photo Joseph, I try not to get involved in politics , what I do find is that things are far from right. Before the elections the prospective MPS canvas promising this and that but it never comes to fruitation. Our National Health Service which used to be excellent has gone down hill , the elderly are suffering in more ways than one. Seems there is one rule for the rich another for the poor.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week.
Yvonne.
As our friend has said, the alternative available for our country would also lead to elective dictatorship. The photograph of frangipani (Arali)flowers look beautiful. At Coimbatore there was a tree known as Madagascar Palm and it also had quite similar flowers.
ReplyDeleteJi has unleashed the reality in such few words...
ReplyDeleteliterally the democracy in which we are living is just a very bad example of that !!
JI has hit the nail on the head with his comment...
ReplyDeleteNamaste.....
ReplyDeleteProvoking indeed.
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thinkable post
ReplyDeletenow democracy become bureaucracy
thanks for sharing
An interesting comment from JI, I'm away to visit him now.
ReplyDeleteinteresting, it must be that democracy is flawed everywhere. x
ReplyDeleteHi Joseph! Hope you’re having a Happy Easter! Sorry for the absence, but things are ever more difficult here...
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well pakistan is also suffering with the flawed democracy....
ReplyDeleteThat is true "Democracy is simply a fig leaf for regime change. "
ReplyDeleteAs for India I don't think this country can pull on much with this type of "democracy"
A good and thoughtful read!! Glad to have found your blog. I'd say that democracy or no democracy, socialism, dictatorship or whatever, that regime is the best which does the best for the people by treating them as equals and by giving them an equal opportunity to learn and grow. Sadly though, it is a rare find.
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