Democracy is a system made for the top 1%, by the 1% and
for the 1%, with all the wealth accumulated in their hands. The rest of
the 90%, give or take the remaining 9% are still relatively wealthy,
are not benefiting from the democratic system over the centuries. In
fact, poverty, homelessness, drug infestation are getting worse rather
than better.
The USA had all the advantages of prosperity for
all, having the privilege to print toilet papers at will, but still is
unable to eradicate poverty at the bottom of the food chain. Democracy
had the ideal of being a system that cares for all, rich or poor, the
human rights accorded to them to have a decent life of adequate housing,
healthcare and food (not from soup kitchens), but it seems that has now
been hijacked to caring only for the super-rich to enable them to get
even richer. From millionaires the became billionaires and now breeding a
few trillionaires to boot. Is such a system sustainable?
Anonymous
The USA planned to export democracy to Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi population supported that move. Now the Iraqis are worse off, with the country still in chaos and their oil being stolen by the USA.
ReplyDeleteTwenty years after 'mission accomplished' brought nothing constructive but more misery to Iraqis, more violence in the country, which is now against the USA in the Middle East and attacking Israel.
It is too late to regret for Iraqis that supported the USA in toppling Saddam Husein. Rather the dictator than the devil is what their biggest regret now. At least with Saddam Hussein there was relative peace and control of their oil. Now all is gone, and the devil is not intending to leave, just benefiting itself with the oil seizures that does not benefit the Iraqis. No, they will not leave like in Afghanistan, without the oil to tie them down.
USA democracy is working like a charm. People are free to set up tents and eat, sleep and shit on street corners. People are free to invade shopping malls and get away with items below a certain value and not be prosecuted. Drug pushers are doing their business right in front of police posts. Drug addicts are walking drunkenly along streets, and no one cares a hoot.
ReplyDeleteIs this the version of democracy that the rest of the world is looking forward to? The USA democratic system is falling apart, and denial is not going to change the status quo.
The world is realizing that communism is no longer the downtrodden system that had been demonized for centuries. China changed all that perception that democracy is a better system than communism. The USA and the West can no longer tout the superiority of its democratic ideals.
Not only is democracy a failure in the West. It is a system that is preventing India, the world's biggest touted democracy, from moving forward. A hindrance to doing things that benefits the country. India is content to hang on to their beholden colonial mindset of keeping the cumbersome British administrative system, their out-of-date railway system, their own caste system and Ganges River cleansing beliefs of still worshipping the Whites as angels.
There was a quote from a very well-educated Indian (I forgot his name) who still bathes in the polluted Ganges River every day - 'My head tells me this is not a good thing to follow, but my heart tells me I have to stick to my faith'. This is the Indian mindset, and they still hang on to traditions that befuddle those outside of India.