Yesterday I happened to read a feature in the BBC website about dynasties taking over in northern africa. Well Many of us may ask whats new about it. The article in BBC talks about Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and algeria. Consider Kuwait, saudi arabia, syria. The dynasties are everywhere. India, Philippines, Indonesia and some other far eastern countries have democratic dynasties... Why does all this happen?
Indifference of the people. In some cases like in oppressive regimes, any opposition is either silenced brutally or given economic privileges. In a democratic setup, the people themselves are so frustrated that they do not care about the credentials of their candidates... Well even in the UK and US to lobby for a post of governor or PM or President, a person needs to have sufficient clout in terms of men or money to win elections... Its known that hillary put up with bill's infidelity in return for his clout in the democratic party that gave her a realistic chance of running for president. In our own country, Rthe prince is back from foreign and is now staying in huts to feel the real india. In India's richest state Maharashtra, in the recently concluded assembly polls more than a dozen leader kids have been "elected" MLAs.
Even in the remotest states of North Eastern India dynasties have started growing.
America which wanted to bring democracy to Iraq has long been silent about Saudi ....
What really is democracy all about? is there any real democracy in existence where over 80% of people cast their franchise genuinely. I doubt so.
There wont be long before we go back to monarchy but in a different form....
Being genuine is a question that is unanswered not only in politics but also in every other field. People are indifferent, as u said. So,how will things change? Forgive my arrogance, but do 'you' really want things to change?
ReplyDeleteWell it is pseudo democracy..It is now coming a full circle back to the monarchy type governance..the way states are being chopped up in the name of language we'll end up with too many states having mini families ruling them..oh god! we need a revolution! The more people start talking about it the better. hope realisation dawns soon...seems more unlikely the way things are now!
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