Well very tough question. Almost all over the world people are fighting for more and more democracy and more freedom. May be in the next 10 to 15 years, you will not be able to find any non-democratic country on this planet. But bringing democracy is the only solution for the problems we face? The answer is a big NO at least democracy in the present form. Few reasons
- If you see any democratic country, people participating in the democratic process are going down. There is no point of democracy if more than 50% of population is staying away.
- People are craving for more and more freedom, and democracy is promising it to people. Because democracy needs to keep people satisfied. Freedom is good, but how much freedom is good? Anything access is bad.
- Corruption is rampant in almost all democracies. Corruption is not unique to democracies, but I strongly feel that corruption in democracies is now a generally accepted phenomena. Some may call is lobbying, and may call it graft.
These problems always been there, why suddenly democracy will not work? The answer according to me, democracy is a process invented few hundred years back to suite the requirements of those generations. But now, you agree or not we are living in complete new world.
But is there any alternative to democracy? Well there none as of now. What should be the new system? Well that is something I cannot decide myself.
