Is the United States of America a real democracy?
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When government become the stakeholder of a privately own company, the citizens voices becomes the voice of the company.
Democracy is the process by which governmental power is politicized by citizens under a free electoral system. However, they maybe several types of democracy; it will all depend on how democracy is legislated to prevent an uneven distribution of political power. In the United Stated, we have what is known as separation of power, which is a system by which states have independent power and responsibilities. However, some can argue that they are no absolute separation of power under a democratic system. And to oppose this claim, others can also argued that they are no absolute lack of separation of power under a democratic system. In a way they’re right because truly, its all depends on the demographic of the house representatives. Nonetheless, true (direct) democracy does exist in some society, although it doesn’t always work as it should, no one can say for certain that it has not been attempted.
Unlike the United State, citizens who are being governed under a true democratic system do not elect their president of choice on the basis of Electoral College. These citizens elect their president directly, each single vote count. People under a true democracy supposedly have direct say but somehow their voices are not always heard. In this society, the upper class very often clashes with the lower class. Their choices on political leaders, governmental rules and regulation frequently differ. Since the upper class tends to own most of the businesses, they feel as though their opinion shouldn’t be compared with that of someone who has no idea of what democracy means.
With that in mind, let us go back in history for a minute. Way back in time, before they were government, existed only businesses, but they couldn’t continue to exist without protection. So they hired people to protect their business. The more money they generated, the more protection they desired. As a result, government was formed therefore, we can say governments were created to protect businesses, so why should it be any different now. It would seem that under a democratic system, those who create jobs for citizens in this country do have a big stakes in it and their voices should reflect that stake.
However, when government become the stakeholder of a privately or publicly trated company, the citizens voices becomes the voice of the company. Their then dictates who should run the company. It is very similar to a joint venture, the only different there is that it’s the citizen of the country who should dictates who should run the company. Since it’s their tax money that is invested their voices becomes the dominant voice. Likewise, we can also argued, since we elected a commander in chief to represent us, he does what he thinks would benefit us and the country. In regard to this, we can then say under a democratic system, those we elect to represent us, makes decision on our behalf but it does not mean that we’re under any obligation to accept every choice that is made on our hehalf.
Under a democratic system, they is no absolute separation of power, it all depends on which political party control the house. Hence, if the house is control by more democrat than republican, the president being a democrat will gain the advantage of having his bills approved. If republicans do not like the bill, they may choose to filibuster, but more often than that it will have no effect without some democrats on their side. Whereas these options are possible under an indirect democratic system, there are not available under a true democracy. True democracy do not represent the voice of big stakeholder, they represent only the voices of single individual citizens.
If a domestic company’s business model involves export to other
country, than their success is our success. This company is obviously bringing
money into our economy and by doing that; they have reduced our capital flight.
Well then, can we obviously say that this company should have equal say as a
citizen who pays his taxes on a regular basis? That’s the problem with direct democracy;
citizens under a direct democratic society have equal say than those corporations that
contributes to the countries economic success.That often create conflict between corporations & members of the government which sometime resulted into a coup d'etat.
However, no one is saying that corporation won’t take advantage of their power to abuse the citizens of the very country they're contributing to. This is why the voice of many citizens under an indirect democratic system is important. Revolting against a company’s business practice that does not correspond with governmental laws and regulations must be taken seriously. The government in this case must step in to protect citizen’s interest as oppose to the corporation. That is a government of the people by the people and for the people in the interest of corporation. Some can argue that no government that is for the people can at the same time be in the interst of corporations - they maybe right.
Under an indirect democracy like we have in the United State, citizens do have equal access to power, it’s all depends on the people of that society. If we want freedom of political expression, freedom of speech and freedom of press, we’ve got to fight for it. No government wants to give complete power to its citizen, that’s the reason why some corporations would rather like for us to remain unaware. In this case, it doesn’t matter if the political party is democrat or republican, the choice is ours, if we want our rights to be respected, we must be at the front line at all times.
However, this president has done something different, his administration have used the Internet as a communication panel. In a way, you never truly know what the president is communicating to some members of the public if you’re not included in the database. And even if you're included, they can pick and choose which information goes to which states. This is democracy at its best, having the public participate in decision making process is a good strategy and one that will take flight from now on. This system has made it very easy to target the new generation. Since the new generation is not one that reads news papers, than the best way to involve them, is via the Internet.
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jxb7076 says:
8 months ago
The word democracy has taken on a whole new meaning since I studied it in grade school. The teachers emphasized that we were a true democracy but as I grew older I realized that freedom of speech and the one man one vote concept was theoritical, having no relevance to reality in the real world. In today's societies it would appear that the more powerful the government become, the less power the people have.
Great information. Thanks for sharing.