It is the instinctive wish of all good, Christian people to support Democracy. It seems to be the 'good' option. The 'right' thing. But is it?Democracy is a recent invention. Greeks or something. I don't know history. Anyway, it's new. It doesn't exist in the wild. Out there, the strongest lead. Others follow. There's no voting. You have to ask yourself, do you support Democracy because of your upbringing? Probably. It's not genetically hard-coded.
The prime example disproving Democracy is Singapore. With true democracy, we'd be a banana republic. For sure. We lucked out. We got a virtual dictatorship that was benign. Lee Kuan Yew plays hard-ball, very hard. He's also very smart. Things work in Singapore because there's less populism (we're still technically democratic). Imagine how powerful Malaya would be if LKY had succeeded in taking control. We'd be bigger than America.
Then look at the Middle East. Democracy is an open invite to the Islamists to go legit. I think America is beginning to realize this. And beginning to realize that maybe Democracy sucks. But then, Democracy is almost synonymous with America. Does that mean America sucks? Tough question.
The bottom line is, as Lee Kuan Yew realizes but cannot say out loud, is that the average man is too stupid to deserve a vote. Think about it, it's a stupid system. Ideally, the system should pick out the most capable and honest leaders, and let them go to work. Without having to answer to the people. Then they can make the unpopular but necessary decisions.
Although we all gripe about the gahmen, the fact is we're lucky. LKY has set up a more-or-less self perpetuating system of good government (see, I can spell it right). I'm sure he has processes in place to prevent bad apples from taking over. Democracy (true democracy, that is) can only spoil the party. All in all, Singapore is all about luck. I've always said, if you really don't like it, leave. Why complain.
In summary, good government boils down to luck. You can't 'elect' a good government. It doesn't last.
1 comment:
You hit the nail on the head. Something I believed all along too. True democracy can only work if the majority of its citizens are wise, level-headed and far-sighted. The vice-versa would lead to collapse of the whole economy and country.
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