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UNDERSTANDING DEMOCRACY: Its Challenges And Electoral Process

The meaning of the term Democracy, as I understand and so does everyone I guess, is rule by the people. When so many people want to rule together, we have chaos. Therefore, a democracy is best represented in a person or party with power vested in that person or party by the people through elective process we call voting. The famous definition of democracy: the government of the people, by the people and for the people, however, poses a paradox. The government of the people, O.K., understood that it is the people's rule or government. What about by the people? Does that mean a government elected by everyone without any dissent? Then, what about for the people? Is that government truly is for everybody? For those who voted for and those who did not, equally? If truly that had happened since the invention of the word democracy and was put into practice in a form of government, then we would not have had any political dilemma with a democratic form of government.

One weakness of democracy, as I read a long time ago interestingly was that a democratic form of government could be abolished in a democratic way. For example, if our legislative body wants to do away with democracy and institute another form of government, they can. So, what we see here is that by democracy what happens actually is a rule by the majority. I, therefore, think that when the term democracy is applied to any form of existing governments in the world, it is a misnomer. The appropriate word should be "Dominatocracy", that is, rule by the majority.

Actual meaning and application of democracy is the toughest challenge for the human race. Democracy in its true meaning is an integration of everyone's rights, privileges, and power blended into one homogeneous system of government, so that any part of it will have the same contents and which will show in essence that all men are created equal and will respect every individual's rights, freedom, privileges and aspiration, that is, it will promote Equal Opportunity. Therefore, a truly democratic government is one directly elected by people in which rights, privileges, aspirations, power and freedom of the all the voters, individually who is the basic element, share a common ground. Now, here the problem starts with. Everybody has the same rights, privileges, aspirations, power and freedom as everyone else. And that does not seem to work well.

Our limitation is that we cannot apply equal set

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