Democracy is Bad? 

The Holy Week just passed relived for us the last days of our Lord, Jesus, the Christ.  It was a week of betrayal, of the kiss that identified the Victim for purposes of the arresting officers, of the Last Supper. Judas, one of the brightest and most intelligent of the Victim’s cabinet, must have been driven by financial need to act as spotter of the authorities.  The people then, the voice of the many, wanted Him crucified.  There was no due process, it was a judgment by acclamation.

Democracy, in a sense, is a kind of judgment by acclamation of the people, as to who shall govern them like an emperor, and in our case, for six years as a strong president.  As a system of government, the democratic way is an erratic way, since philosophers and political scientists rightly fear, that the general mass of the people are not collectively intelligent enough to make a good choice for the ruler of the land.  They are swayed by emotion, popularity and the latest survey on who are the front-runners in the elections for 1998.  And everybody wants to be part of the winning team come election day.  Such is their mentality regardless of the capacity or intellectual competence of the most likely winner. 

And so there are many who recommend other methods of government.  The old ways brought us the Divine Right theory that gave us kings and nobles.  They ruled based on bloodlines and our world history is replete with many examples of kings and queens for many centuries until the French Revolution decapitated this theory of governance, figuratively and literally.  The execution place in Paris gave way to the cry of equality, liberty and fraternity.  

Thus ended the primacy of the theory of hereditary leadership.  The following centuries after the French Revolution paraded before us the rise of an Emperor — Napoleon, and thereafter, that of Parliament, and then the Republican Presidential form. The views of Karl Marx fathered the Communist states of totalitarianism and the single party for the masses, the proletariat.  And we are now in the end times of which form of government is best.

Democracy is a bad form, but knowing a little bit of history that gave rise to new dictatorships after and first and second world wars, I can say without fear of contradiction, that the democratic form of government may actually be a bad form, with elections and corrupt politicians.  But then again, it can also be said that the other forms of government, are a lot worse.  At least, we can correct our bad choice, after six years, when elections come again.  In the other forms right now, the peoples of China, Russia, and other forms of parliamentary dictatorship, live without any change in sight on their next leader.  Not even after six years.  Lifetime leadership is what they get.  It’s more fun, or funds, in the Philippines. Love you all, bye.