Future of Democracy

 Is there a future for Democracy? I believe that there must be some glimpse of hope that democracy still exists, and that even though we as a nation have stumbled away from it, that somehow we will find our way back. To find our way back citizens must forcibly get the government to understand that they need to put aside their differences and work on a comprimise. No more He said She said way of thinking. No more belittling, badgering, or being condescending. Is this possible. Again, we have come a very long way from where this country started over two hundred years ago. We announced our independence in 1776, outlawed slavery in 1865, women became eligible to vote in 1896, and the civil rights movement ended in 1954 which in turn ended segregation.

Throughout our countries history the american citizen has accomplished many feets. We need to take back our country. No longer should the rich be able to say who, what, when, where, how, and why things happen. Corporations should not be able to rule the nation or the world.  

The alternative to democracy is dictatorship, and I don't believe after over two hundred years that the American citizen can go back to this type of government. Many governments have fallen throughout history because of dictatorships such as Rome, Egypt, Germany, Britain, and Russia. The American people adopted the constitution for a reason.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." (Retrieved on April 21, 2011, http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html )These first couple of lines taken from the United States constitution have meaning, and we need to relearn what that meaning is. How about Patrick Henry's famous words of "Give me liberty or Give me Death"

Complacency is not the answer, standing up for what is right and decent is the answer. Democracy is more than a word, it is a way of life. However, the rich and the powerful should not be able to dictate what our country should or should not do. Democracies future depends on the welfare of the whole not the few.

Is there a future for democracy, I sure hope so!!!