Why Democracy is The Most Effective, by Cal Reeves

            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.

           

Works Cited

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Why Communism is Defective, by Cal Reeves

When people hear the word “Communism,” a few things come to mind, Karl Marx, dictatorship, war, and innocent deaths. It is associated with these types of terms because these radical socialist governments usually do not work and result in horrible situations. Real communism as far as Karl Marx is concerned, is supposed to be a moneyless, classless, stateless social order, with common ownership for means of production, which in theory eventually leads to an almost modernized anarchist government. Then, everything in the country can just run and grow off of one another. For some reason he thought that dictatorship was the first stage to setting all of this into motion. Many Communist countries have not been able to get passed this first stage.

Today in our world there have been and there are a handful of communist countries. Many countries have fallen, while some still exist. China, North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam are the most popular Communist governments today. The most famous fallen country is the USSR. Many others have also fallen in Eastern Europe for many reasons like economic crashes, starvation, and collectivism. In a most of these countries, the government plays large roles in what people do in their everyday life. Which I would say is the first reason why communist countries generally do not last. Because some say the government that governs the best, is the one that governs the least. When governments become regulative in the lives of the people, it takes away from the freedom and privacy of its people. In return, it can cause many things like distrust in the government, and rebellion. Which history has showed then can cause innocent deaths of the people. Innocent deaths are one of the many ways these governments put fear in the people to make them do what they want, and make sure they do not ask any types of questions.

Like I mentioned before they all operate under a pure dictatorship. Which generally results in the country going in the direction of the person running it. There is also no congress, parliament, or any type of voting causing the people to not have any type of say what happens in their country. If the leader wants to go to war or invade another country, then that’s just what happens. This can cause other people from different countries to have much disgust for these communist countries because their main goals are generally to invade, expand, and spread communism. This can also cause the country to generate what little money they have away from the important things like education, and jobs for its entire people, which in the end could result in a better economy, and lower death rates because people will become educated and know how to fix major problems in the country.

Another main reason this system struggles is because the all the people have to provide for the county. Everything that they have to do is for the country. Agriculture and industry for example are two of the things that are government controlled. The people that run these companies and farms can barely afford to pay for anything because almost all of their products they have to just give to the government. Which can generally cause poverty and large famine. In the 1930’s and 40’s, many farmers in the Soviet Union died from starvation because they would farm crops then to government would come in and take what they thought was theirs, and feed there armies or export it to generate money for themselves.

           

Works Cited

www.advoidingthevoid.worldpress.com