In times of turmoil and poor political leadership or lack of transparent governance, many people will subject themselves to believe that "Democracy is Dead". This is especially true when political elections do not turn out the result that the masses wanted despite the Majority voting for a certain party.
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Take a simple example.
There are 3 positions available in an organisation. The available candidates are from 2 major factions (A & B). If 2 out of 3 positions are filled by one of the faction then that faction will have the major decision making power.
Out of the 3 positions:
Position 1 has 50 voters to vote
Position 2 has 30 voters to vote
Position 3 has 20 voters to vote
Position 1 was won by faction A with 45 votes
Position 2 was won by faction B with 16 votes
Position 3 was won by faction B with 11 votes
Simple maths states that only 32 people supported faction B (16+11+5)
Hence faction A has more supporters and are the popular team
Yet faction B is now the one in power!!
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Sounds familiar right?
Unfortunately "democracy" is just a numbers and logic game. It doesn't matter how large the support is but where the support is located that matters and that is how some political parties stay in power.
Because the main majority (who lost) feels that they have been "cheated", many do not want to recognise the final outcome and may hold multiple gatherings or movements to dispel the decision, which unfortunately does not yield the outcome desired.
To take a notch up, many turn to their leaders for help to make changes against the leadership of ruling government (which ultimately fails, because let's get real, you can't easily get rid of the head honcho without being played out, especially when there is money and power to be distributed)
Rewind to the whole vape issue and people threatening to not vote a ruling government back to power.....
Democracy is the people's power to exercise their rights to an elected representative......
Democracy is NOT the people's power to exercise demonstrations and dissent against an elected government which plays a numbers game.......The refusal to accept the decision is akin to anarchy
Thus democracy should be practiced whereby the people themselves should say
"I want to vote back YOUR party, IF and ONLY IF, THAT certain top guy is no longer the leader. Otherwise I won't vote and let the other party do whatever they want. I will still NOT vote for the other party as I am loyal to your party....."
Alot to swallow.....bitter to the taste.
