So far, the U.S. election has been a close one. Although the mainstream media is heavily biased in favor of Biden, there is no official final answer. Asians, accustomed to a hierarchical culture, do not easily understand this, and there is even some ridicule. Of course, this was not possible without the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda system’s blather that democracy creates chaos. Remember, when Taiwan was just beginning to democratize, parliamentarians used to fight in parliament. The Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine also deceived the people with this image: See, democratization is a minor clowning.
Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the least bad of all the systems mankind has tried. But I think “time” is very important, and it’s the axis of Churchill’s quote: it both sums up the past history of mankind – which has not produced a better system – and looks ahead to the future – which may still be coming! There is a better system than democracy. So even in the United States, where democracy has been in place for 244 years, there is still room to improve the democratic system.
Democracy is always evolving.
In fact, American democracy has been an evolutionary process. In Washington’s time, only property-owning white males had the right to vote, which evolved to women’s suffrage, and today, one person, one vote. The history of the United States is the history of the evolution of democracy. The United States has also experienced social crises much worse than today, including a four-year civil war. But the United States did not collapse. This shows the advantage of democracy over the Chinese autocracy: stability. Imagine what it would be like if one day the U.S. government were to adopt “stability” as a basic national policy, as the Chinese government has done. Will an America where people have guns become a battleground for daily slaughter?
There is no doubt that democracy is better than autocracy. But different times and different qualities of people can operate a democracy with different results. The biggest problem facing the United States today is undoubtedly the changing demographics. The large number of immigrants who have come from Middle Eastern countries in the last 20 years is completely different from the European immigrants traditionally accepted in the United States. The culture and religious beliefs of their countries of origin are inherently antithetical to democracy. That’s why Omar, whose political platform is “anti-American,” was re-elected as a congressman from Minnesota. Because that district is filled with immigrants who are “anti-American”. What could be more absurd than this election? The American electoral system elects an opponent of America to the highest political office in the land! So, I say again and again: freedom has boundaries. The first task of any system is to train the people to have confidence in their own system. And that’s something America simply cannot do.
In the last 20 years, American education has become the playground of the left. Criticism of Western values has become the mainstay of textbooks. It’s equally absurd: a taxpayer-funded national public education system that breeds young people to dig their ancestors’ graves! This is the root cause of the proliferation of black lives and Antifa in the last year or so.
In his memoirs, Obama says, “Our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of a crisis – a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be.” He’s not wrong at all, except that he’s afraid to say publicly that his vision is the path of socialism.
In over a hundred years of human practice of socialism, has any country ever implemented a democratic system? None! On the contrary, Venezuela, which was originally a democracy, went completely bankrupt after embarking on the road to socialism. This leads to a simple truth: political democracy cannot be separated from economic capitalism. It can be said that the mess the United States is in today is the result of the choice of Barack Obama 12 years ago. The biggest lesson to be learned is that a democracy must be legally and strictly free of socialist ideas. Otherwise, the beautiful idea of a universal pot of rice will eventually put the democratic system on the road to self-destruction. Either this time or the next.
Capitalism, with its emphasis on individual values, is consistent with the philosophy of democracy: the individual is greater than the collective. Socialism, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of that philosophy. Even democracies as powerful as the United States cannot withstand the erosion of socialist ideas, let alone others! If democracy cannot fix its weaknesses, the United States today will be the sunset of democracy.
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