Thread by @Fawad__Ahmed

This is not an argument against democracy, it's a context.
Democracy is a product of industrial revolution in Europe. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the base of social power gradually shifted from land owning gentry to the industrialist. The masses evolved from.... (cont)

... land tillers to factory workers, managers and accountants. Middle class came up as a new and powerful segment of society. The kingdoms evolved to nation states. It was in those socio-economic conditions that one man one vote evolved. This was not an empty slogan....cont

...it was backed by social values evolved out of the revolution; such as, rule of law instead of personality, freedom of expression / information and accountability of the elected representatives.
What has happened in the third world including Pakistan....!!...cont

...we are stuck somewhere in between the agricultural and industrial age. Vast rural population, still practices the old values of waderaism. Majority of the so called elected representatives exhibit the ills of elitism. Our elected assemblies are groups of land Lords. ...cont

...vouching for the best of both the worlds (democracy and aristocracy). The system is based on a flawed structure and hostage to perpetual exploitation. The westernised mindset; totally detached to reality on ground and the wily feudal lord selling overlordship as democracy.

It is a modal of an Ox Cart fixed with a Ferrari engine.
Yet all is not hopeless, with realistic, imaginative and practical reforms, we can manage a workable democracy in a localised, practical shape. The only thing required is determined leadership and public willing to change