Democracy in crisis, why?
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Why, is this ideal government, ever conjured in the minds of men, in travail? Without traveling far in thought you discover that democracy thrives best when premised as it must, on the rule of law; otherwise anarchy ensues; secondly, to function optimally democracy ought to answer to the principle of the majority, as king, lest a dictator emerges; thirdly, it should be rooted on equality, not so, you’ll have slave-owner/ slave coexistence; trample on the rule of law, overlook majority test or sever its root, then democracy stews in crisis and becomes a nullity!Why has the American democracy veered without signal, into the anti-democratic Donald Trump lane? Trump and his dupes didn’t win on the principle of the majority! How could they, when three million more voters voted for Hillary Clinton?
The Electoral Colleges which handed Donald Trump victory he didn’t deserve, are not institutions of equality, but instruments of deliberate inequality instituted by the powerful and the rich, to defend the ill-gotten gains of the few. Nothing more, nothing less!
“Your and my legitimacy relies on fighting corruption, discrimination and seeking justice.”– Imam KhameneiThis is laid bare in the recently released Auditor General’s report of 2023. The report highlights that government was plundered off millions of pula in wasteful expenditure and irregular procurement at a time when the country was grappling for every thebe to save its citizens. The report reveals that millions set aside for the...