1. The power depends on numbers. The more people agrees, the greater effect it will bring. The lesser, vice versa. The power doesn't depend on whether it's a good cause or not, whether it's wise decision or not, but merely majority rules.
2. They are not equal. People that are involved in democracy usually have different exposure towards issues or cause or person, they have different level of intelligence and they come from different social classes with different interests.
Now. Based on that two FACTS, you can already see how democracy is not ideal. Decisions that come from that will not be objective because there will always be more people that are stupid, blinded by faith, and discriminative than people who are literate, tolerant, and wise-as Sturgeon's Law stated: 90% of everything is crap. And since the power lies in numbers and people are mostly stupid; people can always be bought, manipulated, cheated to be on the side of wrong. And minorities-as legal as they are as a part of society-will never be heard as much as majorities do: they don't have a place in democracy. What, do you think it's enough for them to just live and not able to practice their believe or embrace their sexuality or just accept that their presence will always be frowned upon?
Yeah, right.
Of course, the practice of democracy is not as shallow: yes political participation is a concern, but so does representation, transparency, rule of law and individual liberties. Which is totally NOT a bad thing, but it has to be followed by great amount of education and literacy to actually make it REALLY works. I might not be a politics expert, but well, isn't it obvious that 'democracy' is just a fancy name for a system if it isn't followed with a good quality of the people? Yanno, because they personally RUN the democracy?
Then again, even though democracy is not very ideal-it is the best one could come up with since any other system is either worse or plain inapplicable to countries as big as one consists of 17,000 islands. Lesser of two evils, they say.
But yeah. Because we are facing one of the biggest celebration of democracy-THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION-I'm writing this post.
This election might be the milestone of something important (other than the fact that this is my first presidential election haha) and the future of this country might depend on it: because there's only two choices with totally different background and totally different method of leading this country.
The thing that I can conclude from this is that, if people were smart enough, they will choose a wise, down-to-earth, and experienced candidate with brilliant achievements in their track records and a very clear vision of what this country should be, complete with ways to achieve it. They will choose a candidate from rational and critical thinking.
If they aren't so smart, they probably don't really care who they choose as long as he's from the party that they cheer on, or he's the guy that are chosen by their leader or friend or preacher, or because he's the guy that will represents the value of this religion or believe or race or ethnic that they are (instead of all people in this country) or he's the guy who will fulfill their selfish interest.
Now now, we all know that nobody's perfect-people have faults and made mistakes or have stupid (sometimes unforgivable) pasts or ugly or not filthy rich-so let's just agree on that and choose whoever we think IS the LESSER of two evils. (If it's not obvious enough)
Then, if there comes to a time where the majority of this country choose the obviously wrong choice (which is not that surprising) then that might be for the best of this country.
p.s. Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass or misrepresent the enemy.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch
- (probably not) Benjamin Franklin
