What is Democracy?

What is democracy? Democracy is ruling by the people, or the people have the power. What's a true democracy? It's where everyone holds power and rights, not just the selected few.

If you agree with the above, read on; if not, leave a comment on where you don't agree.

If you agree that democracy should be applied to everyone, then you must agree with the concept of giving democracy to countries with dicatorships and other form of government that restricts human rights (not the way how Bush does it though). Now I'll come back to what is democracy again, and democracy is rule by the people. In a country, people vote for in national elections, but what about the world? Do every human being on the earth enjoy voting rights, that is, on international affairs? No. Not surprising at all since one might say the world is not a democracy yet.

Now think about another issue. I'll make a simple personification of some countries in the world. North Korea is like a three year old who wants to lift weights and learn karati, while the US is like a 25 year old who has bombs and trying to be nice to the three year old and persuade them not to learn karati for self-defense. One might say that nuclear bombs are more dangerous than karati, but both can kill people and both can be stopped.

I know a lot of people will oppose the war on Iraq if Bush said the cause is to bring democracy into Iraq rather than finding weapons of mass destruction. But I think this is a good concept, although accomplishing through war is not. Now think if the world is one country and every country in the world right now are states in the U.S., don't you think the U.S. is acting like a dictator rather than the White House or Washington D.C.?

Example: terrorism is becoming more of a global problem, and US responded by strengthening their defense budget, which I support. However, since terrorism is a GLOBAL problem, every other country could also strengthen their national defense, and it is very reasonable, especially after the recent attack in London. But here is the US, big brother of world, mocking and threatening nations that might become a threat against the US such as China, Iran, or North Korea. I think we stated earlier that a true democracy is based on people's will and rights, as people have a right to get a sense of secure. But some other state (US), while even has less "votes" than China and 27x defense budget than China, think raising defense budget against terrorism, a common problem in the world today, is a threat to other states. This brings me to wonder, if one state is holding a criminal and another state raised its defense budget try to prevent the criminal murdering in their state or even try to arrest the criminal, a third state, which also raised its awareness in defense, wants the second state to use less money on defense. Why? So the criminals can come to the second state instead of their own state?

Our country (the US) is on the wrong track and not many people are aware of this because it is hard to aware something that you are involved with. So take a minute of your time, think about the earth from a different perspective, say the moon's. Think about how one country controls the world while wanting true democracy in the world; how some criminals hiding are free while some country fail to get protection because the government of the world failed to pass the bill; and how gender, race, demography, and many other factors determines that person's freedom and rights, but they are all from the same species, homo sapiens.


The point of this blog is to bring awareness to global politics. Many people today fail to get up-to-date and don't know what's going on in the world; and most of the people who do read the news failed to judge the information critically. Remember, all media and published materials are biased, no matter what deceit they put on it. Even FACTS are BIASED! The US media is just as biased as the Chinese media and the UN media. At last, I will leave a quote from Sir Francis Bacon: "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to WEIGHT and CONSIDER."

-true democrat?

PS: This blog in no way discredits the US government and criticize the mission in Iraq and war on terrorism.