Many governments today are
democratic for a number of reasons, the help keep things in the best interest
of the people of the country, it helps elect leaders, and it gives every person
the chance to be heard. Democracies have been around for thousands of years
mainly, because they work. They have tended to outlast most dictatorships and
communist states. Many democracies have lasted over hundreds of years. For
instance ours has lasted about 220 years. Some of the older ones like Greece
where started by a guy by the name of Cleisthenes, who is noted for starting
the democratic footing in Greece around 500 BC and lasted for over two
centuries.
Dictatorships and Communist states just
cannot compete with democracies or capitalist states on most levels. The
democracies tend to be more equipped in the means of a military and self
defense, they are also more generally funded because they stronger capitalist
economies.
The reason why is because democracies
tend to be more closely related with capitalist economies rather than socialist
economies, which history has shown outlast and function more smoothly that
socialist economies. Capitalist economies focus on privately owned goods and
services, which are produced for profit in a market economy, rather than the
socialist standpoint where the means of production is more of a co-op for the
state, and most of the income goes back to the government rather than the
people in most cases. If a country can afford to have a capitalist economy,
because they have a large number of recourses and exports, they would be crazy
not to go with this system. Plus with a democratic government on top of that
the people and the congress can vote on what happens with the money.
Another great reason to be democratic is
because everyone can be heard. People in these systems can have the freedom to
vote for legislative, and executive power. So we the people pick who we want to
represent us, and they can keep there best interests in the interests of the
people. Also if we do not like an elected official then we can just remove them
from their seat and a vice president or whoever is next in line can take there
place. This also helps because we can also influence what laws we have abide
by. If we want to pass a law we can vote on it, we can lobby during
legislation, we can march on Washington to get the attention of our government officials
to get them to vote a choose certain bills and laws. We can choose where we
want our funding and money to be generated and focused on. We can decide if we
want to invest in agriculture, education, defense, or certain industries. If
certain industries in our country are not doing, our congress can decide if
it’s right financially to bail this industry out.
Another reason why Democracies rain
supreme is because it allows the government to not get that involved in the
peoples day to day lives. Some say the government that governs the best is the
one that governs the least. I believe there is a lot of truth to this because
history has shown that governments that have many regulations tend to have more
innocent deaths, protest, and rebellion. Then at which point the government is
more likely to collapse. The way Dictatorships operate is, they have to put
fear into the people to get the to obey the government and higher command,
otherwise who wants to listen to everything one leader tells you to do? A
majority of people I would say do not. The ways they put this fear into people
is by large rallies, and killing innocent people, has history has showed. If
there is a hell, I can picture Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin at the very
bottom because of all of the innocent people they killed. I am sure they are
still fighting with each other to. That’s beyond the point, but they are not
the only ones. I believe that dictatorships are outdated and do not work
because usually the wrong person somehow get elected to power and then the
whole system will eventually fall.
I believe the perfect world would be one
large democracy where there is no fighting and everyone as a say in exactly
what happens. This will probably never happen in my lifetime but it is a very
nice thought.
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