Bag's Rants

Democracy in the West. Hardly a good advert.

Watching the video on Michelle Malkins site, Hot Air, where it was going on about the Democrats new campaign. Watch here. Her site is usually worth a visit even if some of it, like this, is only applicable to the US. And she is worth a look just for herself.

Back to the video. It's so sad to see a similar sort of situation over there as over here. I always thought of the US and free and, although not perfect, as best as a democratic society could be. Like over here it's amazing what a few rotten apples have done with a docile population. Democracy! Like here the population have little choice. It is one extreme or the other. In the UK of course it is only one extreme now. Nobody seems to be offering a middle course or even a rational course. What is the real difference between the west with it's democracy and the middle east solution to democracy like Iran?

Surely with the technology we have we can actually get down to an individual level and allow anyone to get involved in politics. I think we still need some sort of government but we have shown how corrupted our current method is. We need a smaller government, more involvement from the population, we need accountability for those in government.

Of course it will never happen. Like all dictators our government and it's sycophants have the power and they are not letting it go. Voting once every four years or so on groups that are indistinguishable is not working. Here and in the US by the looks of things.

In Europe we also have the EU. It's sold as democratic, as it's in Europe, but in reality it's run more along the lines of Iran. A few in power are dictating to the whole of Europe and their governments. Fortunately, all are not like the UK so there is more chance of rival groups screwing it up. We can't say anything without being classed as racist but the Turks¹ and the Greeks, among others, can and I'm sure will.

I despair. Here we are enforcing democracy on others. Remember it's not WMD or terrorism now, it's been democracy, has always been democracy and removing a tyrant.

1) That's of course if they stop changing the rules on the Turks. I think they are screwing them around until Iraq is in a better position and the Kurds issue is defined. It will then be 'and you need to agree to let the Kurds have that little bit of land there'. The slippery slope.

posted by Bag @ 5:00 pm