Thursday, May 29, 2008

Democracy creates stability of a society

Democracy is a social system that most of the countries today agree with and democracy is the sign of civilization, in most people’s opinion. In today’s world, only two countries, Myanmar and Saudi Arabia are still not in the democracy system.

How come that democracy is so wide spread? There must be some reasons and in my opinion, "Democracy creates stability in a society." may be one of the good reasons.

Democracy means it depends on people, government represent people's rights. The harmonious of members of the country decide whether this country is stable. If all the country’s member can work and fight together, this country is unbreakable.

However, there is always shadow behind the brightness and sometimes, the shadow seems to be better and stronger than the brightness.

The opposite of democracy is dictatorship. It is most unacceptable one among whole human beings. The infamous events of the dictators tell us that democracy creates stability in a society in an opposite way. Perhaps the most infamous dictator is Adolf Hitler. In the control of him, Germans fall in a fanatical belief of their race and the deep abhorrence towards Jews. Such a country seemed to be super stable------Actually most of the countries in a dictatorship are just like Nazi Germany, they all fall into a hero-worship of their leaders and seemed to be unbreakable. However, countries like them are not stable at all. It is because their strength comes from the belief of there "hero" leader, without their leader, the only way for them is death. On the other hand, the leaders usually are irresponsible (In the last few hours of Hilter’s life, all he thought is how to suicide with the whole Germany’s fall down, instead of thinking the way out). In this way, we can see that dictatorship, the opposite of democracy, is actually very weak.

Let's move back to democracy. People in countries of democracy can decide their own ways. The advantage of this is: the way decided by a lot of people is more suitable for a country than a way come up with one person. This is obviously. One person only has his own idea. The more people involved in discussion, the more the way match with most members' idea. The stability of a country also comes from the food, salary and safety which democracy is able to give people and in fact, democracy has done these jobs perfectly. In a democracy system, people tend to have equal rights (the government set up many decrees to achieve this), including salary, food and many other rights. Most of them have already realized. About safety, there is a good example showing the advantages of democracy. In Myanmar, victims suffered from cyclone and cannot receive helps from other countries, many people even paid their lives for it, just because the political system in Myanmar. Myanmar refused to receive other’s help. However, things are different in democracy system. When people are in danger, they can receive others help as soon as possible, they can always in a safe position. In this way, we can see that democracy satisfied the most important part of a country, people. With the people’s unity, a country can be very stable.

However, real democracy is difficult to realize. In fact, real democracy is impossible because there should be no things like “country” in a democracy world.