Stupid people and democracy - a thread
Many candidates who appeared in TFI interviews recently, supported the withdrawal of farm laws wholeheartedly stating that people and more specifically farmers were against it and that they were protesting. Democracies must respect people.
Many candidates who appeared in TFI interviews recently, supported the withdrawal of farm laws wholeheartedly stating that people and more specifically farmers were against it and that they were protesting. Democracies must respect people.
When I follow up with “If CAs start protesting against GST, company directors against IBC and builders against RERA, should the government roll back those too?”. The answer is mostly silence or an illogical emotional outburst about people’s right and democracy.
‘Democracy is of the people, for the people and by the people’ is possibly the stupidest quote about democracy and most people think of it as the most technical definition of democracy.
Democracy is a system in which people elect the government. That’s where their role in governance ends. They are free to criticise the decisions of the government but the government is not bound to fulfil their demands.
It’s nice of the government if it listens to people but again it’s not legally or morally (🥱)bound to. People can always vote governments out after 5 years.
And what are people anyway? People are not a nation loving monolith. People are illogical and sometimes emotional fools. People are often scheming selfish wretches.
They are a loose coalition of a billion mouths with gazillion demands, most of which contradict each other. So if the government starts listening to everything, nothing will happen. It will be policy paralysis.
Best governance is dispassionate governance. Best policy making is nation-first policy. Administrators should have small tongues, smaller ear holes and big brains.
People are idiots with big mouths and they will continue to be idiots. But the nation must continue its journey forward. So here’s my new definition of democracy:
Democracy is a system where some sane and many stupid people vote strategically so that their communities get the biggest representation and then expect the government to dance to their tunes for the next 5 years.
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