Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Democracy

Democracies have many great characteristics that may seem very desirable by people looking for a government to rule them. This could be the reason why it was first invented, but the early democracies are much different from what we have now. There are also many different types of democracies and none of them can be considered "Right" or "Wrong" because they all have good aas well as bad characteristics. One thing wrong with the Democracy that we take part in is that only a select few have any input on what goes on in our countries. sure we get to vote for these people but we vote for the ones who we feel we can relate to the best on the most subjects, but there are always going to be things we disagree about with them. Another thing that seems corrupt to me is that we may select our leaders through a vote, but then our leaders appoint others, often friends or acquaintences, to other positions of power even though we never got a chance to have our input on who should have those roles. You don't have to be the best person for the job, as long as you know who the person who appoints the job might be!

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