The future of democracy depends on how much say the people actually have in the present when compared to the past. Is it more, less, or equal now as when democracy first came to be? I believe the best way to answer what the future of democracy is would be to analyze the past of democracy and how it evolved. As there aren’t any particular points suggesting exactly how democracy began, it would be safe to assume that human rights were a big part of it. Next, the law and how we all must follow said laws, education and wealth no doubt were contributors as well. Another important part of democracy people vote on higher representatives to run our country. These representatives hopefully listen to wants and needs of the people so they can take action and make things happen. The problem here comes from the area of education. Often times people are uneducated and led to biased representatives with multiple ads and campaigns telling the people that the other is wrong and not to vote on them. So instead of concentrating on what good they can all do by coming together, they are so consumed with money and power that average person is going off of the brief blurbs thrown around on television, newspapers, magazine articles, etc. It almost seems like the saying the “rich getting richer the poor getting poorer” isn’t too farfetched of a statement. Where I am coming from with this in regards to my answer to the critical question, if we keep up like this, then how can our future of democracy, whatever it may be, seem realistic? It can’t. Anymore it is about money and power and the point of why democracy exists or the morals behind it, have been forgotten.
Bureau of Public Affairs. (2011). Democracy. Retrieved 4 22, 2011, from US Department of State: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/democ/
Katznelson, Ira, Mark Kesselman, and Alan Draper. The Politics of Power 5th ed. Louiseville: Transcontinental Printing, 2006.
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