The problem with democracy

Voters today often find that their votes do not have an influence in creating the policy of society because politicians do not follow their will and they do not fulfill the promises they gave to voters. That is the reason, for example, that the participation at elections in the USA falls below 35% of the voters’ body. To increase the credibility of the lousy election system in the US, an election show is created that lasts for more than a year, and it is broadcasted every day on prime time on television. As a result of such propaganda the people support their favourites the same way fans support their idols in sports which in essence has nothing in common with democracy.  

 It is not even relevant to the creators of shows who wins; it is all about how to make voters happy if their candidate wins or sad if they lose the election, while the politics don’t change at all. That all is a vast manipulation, which many people are aware of. So why then are there no attempts to change something here?  

Democracy by definition requires the power of decision making in the hands of the people. Of course, that confronts to the will of the influential people that much, so that scientists have not been able to create an academic consensus of how a developed democracy is supposed to look like. But politicians use the word democracy whenever it is suitable to them like their democracy is a perfectly defined solution. Of course, it is not. 

I have defined a developed form of democracy in my book Humanism, where all people will really decide about all issues of their interests and in such a way define the best possible political orientation of society. So why then do people not take my ideas into consideration?  

Firstly, that is because it requires intellectual effort which cannot be directly profitable. People who try searching for the satisfying solution soon realize that a redistribution of the real decision making power in society can be very hardly accepted due to a large number of different interests of people who have different powers inside society. Besides that, my ideas strongly decline from the knowledge and customs people are used to, so that my ideas are often emotionally unacceptable to them. No arguments help here. The inertia to changes in society is nothing else but a consequence of conspiracy of authorities through the entire history of humankind. Today accepted knowledge still has the intention to make people obedient followers of authorities.  

After fifteen years of promoting the ideas of how to build a good society, I've not succeeded in making people interested. Paradoxically, this has been happening in the time of political, economic, and moral crisis around the world, when numerous people searched for an escape from unfortunate situations, and could not find it because no other idea besides mine existed to create a good society. Unfortunately, the acceptance of the way to a good society will require a lot of time.

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