Democracy: the Flaw

By Caspar de Rijk, Ph E.

Democracy has given us inflation and income tax, so what have we learned from our experience? A democracy run by scrupelous people or politicians, corporations* which are solely responsible for the bottomline i.e. or obsessed with money and profit ideas evidently results in a democratic society obsessed with money.

Democracy is an idea, indeed a better idea than many other political or organizational alternatives. Yet we do not find democracy in the business world. Why is it not used there if it is such a succesful model? Think about it.

Is it, as many executives say that you never get anything done if a business were run by democratic principle. Examine history carefully and you may come to the same conclusion as I did. The only flaw in the ideal of democracy is the hidden aspect of mind control, dishonesty and propaganda, misleading others by spreading false data. There are no safeguards built into the democratic concept. This means in practice anno 2009 that democracy has been caught up by the criminals who intend to use it to usurp power and control by covert means. We have seen how this works organizations like local party politics as well as outfits like NSA, CIA, 9/11 cabals etc. All this happened in the democratic Western world!

Democracy by dictionary means:

1. Government by the people exercised either directly or through elected representatives.

2. A political or social unit that has such a government.

3. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

4. Majority rule.

5. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

[French démocratie, from Late Latin dēmocratia, from Greek dēmokratiā: dēmos, people + -kratiā, -cracy.]

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of these definitions. What is wrong is not expressed. Something that is not there is not easily seen.

So what is the omission? Let’s take definition #1 The full definition which would work is “A government by the people for all the people” Note the omission of “…for all the people”.

Steve K. Moyer** has covered this beautifully in his conception of the Spiritual Economy in which he points out what we need is applied virtues.

Definition # 4 Majority Rule is probably the worst culprit and should have been unanymous support or agreement in other words: consensus.

Let’s look at what is really consensus.

1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole

2. General agreement or accord: government by consensus.

[Latin cōnsēnsus, from past participle of cōnsentīre, to agree]

So here we are to reach an agreement that would be agreeable to all people, which many say is impossible. And they are right. If one has fixed ideas such as for example: “ wars are inevitable”, “taxation always increases”, “money is all” or “ I have to fight for my survival”, “there exists only one truth, mine!”, it is virtually impossible to achieve actual consensus. There is much more to this but that is a subject in itself i.e. reality (agreement) vs truth.

The level of smartness and intelligence required to make proposals that are sound for ALL PEOPLE is considerable. Why wasn’t it done? One reason is that mankind was not really in touch and in-communication internally lots of lying go-betweens that would profit from a few lies to gain an advantage.

Imagine an American president being paid by the oil industry, doing all to defend its interests and of course lacking virtues, would not see anything wrong with killing a few to obtain righteous compliance – all this while praying to God in Sunday Services. It has been said that the most important zone of ethical behaviour is the top hierarchy and it is kinda obvious, witness our various Enrons and other present time evidence like the irresponsible bailout lies by politicians.

In other words a democracy without virtues - and we may include intelligence as a virtue as well – results in the power of the people being used for the benefit of the few or even a majority of the people (defined as 51%) and often to the detriment of the other half or lesser minorities. How intelligent a proposal must be to be acceptable to mankind as a whole, just think of that.

So I propose a new and more precise definition of democracy as follows:

Democracy is the social order and form of ‘political’ organization that uses the power of the people for the good of all the people.

In other words it would be wise for you as an individual to define democracy as a consensus democracy. Unless you are member of a political party (limited viewpoint and responsibility), you would also do so, I hope.

References:

* Michael Moore on corporations;

** Synergy Nation, Steve K. Moyer

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