This is a good read. Got it somewhere from the internet ........
The 12th elections are over, the results are clear and everyone seemed to have accepted the outcome except some scum. We also had a transition plan outlined after much vacillation. Yet, some people do not seem to be satisfied, accepting and moving on. Thus, we are stuck in a quagmire of our own making as a bunch of immature schoolboys fight for the spoils. The result is endless politicking, devious machinations and immoral chicanery as each side seeem to have conveniently forgotten that they were put there to steer the ship of state away, as best they can, from the rocks of an economic wreckage.
Many people, I have spoken to are totally disillusioned. They expected more maturity, more constructivism, more assured leadership, more magniminity etc. They yearn for some shelter from these infernal economic climes. The poor, the destitute, the disenfranchised all expect and hope for some succour. Instead, they get some suckers bartering the people's trust to the highest bidder and so-called civil society advocates and democracy warriors out to shag the Constitution and the voters for their own selfish ends.And the ruling regime led by a soporific is no better. So what gives when the basic foundations that underpin a democratic state is all collapsing before our very eyes.
If one reads history, economic malaise and political decay gave rise to the Hitlers, Mussolinis and Tojos of yesteryears. Fast forward post WW2, the same formula was repeated in the African states, South America, South Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc. All these are sad indictments of the democratic model. Granted some of these states failed in the military experiment, but strongman rule did give stability to Indonesia (under Suharto), Pakistan (under Zia Ul-haQ) and return normalcy to Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand and prosperity to South Korea UNTIL the military retreated back to the barracks and them democratic jesters returned to the scene.
Democracy is essentially a self-aborting model. It cannot survive simply because its inner contradictions are primed to simply overwhelm its core lynch pin once the suitable conditions manifest themselves. Its very existence is dependent on ancillary variables like an educated and informed policy, egalitarian accessibility to information, commonality of purpose and interests and a whole gamut of both mutually supportive and inherently contradictory factors. In fact, the democratic ideal has never been manifested in any nation, even in the so-called enlightened and progressive west.
Thus is it deemed unwise to call for the abolition of a system that has brought so much misery to mankind. Food for thought, anyone?
