Democracy has been the longstanding ideal of an ideology since its introduction to the ‘free’ world. All else that was introduced was viewed as an abomination. The result was the cold war where Democracy, which was the ideology to ‘freedom’, fought against Communism which seemingly in the eyes of Democracy is an ideology of oppression. This was fought through a series of proxy wars in South-East Asia, the Middle East and probably other regions, but never where the fighters of each ideology originated from; especially democracy’s. Therein, itself, unfolds the terrible truth. Democracy is just a tool of the powerful to maintain control over others.
What about communism? Certainly, it is also a tool of oppression. Being in its crudest form, it sets out as a centrally control nation-state to achieve goals in different aspects such as econmoic, military, socially etc. This however, is sanctioned by a goverened body who viewed it as the most efficient method to run the state. Clearly, looking at the economic status of these communist states, it didnt quite achieve the intended results. USSR was made the picture of the clearence of communism.
Democracy henceforth became a noble ideology as to free the people that are oppressed under a tyrant democracy. It promised prosperity to those who adopted it’s ideals. It promised equal rights for all- their voices(of disagreement and agreement) would be heard. Basically, it promised everything that communism couldnt achieve- freedom. This very fact is one of the reasons why american troops are in Iraq today: to free the oppressed people from their tyrant, Sadaam Hussein, though this has no relation to communism. Truly, did the Iraqis really needed it? If so, then why is there so much violence going on in that country? Violence that is directed towards the ousting of the “forces of freedom”.
Noticably, proxy wars are not fought near the countries of ideological trajectory origin. Vietname is so far away from USA, yet it was contested just so to protect key economic interest in the region. Middle-eastern countries too were the same, but they contained a very valube resource: oil. Thus, it can be seen that democracy was fighting communism not because of its key idea: Equality. Rather, it was for economics.
Though the USA is democratic country, it is one of the countries that has a rather high poverty rate. The social class inequality there is very great too. As a result, young children have improper education they badly needed to free themselves from their current state(as normally assumed). Adults do not have the capital to run their own business, be it a small one, or any other means to elevate themselves out of their state of poverty.
Democracy was termed by the Athenians as rule by the people. However, the only power that people have in deciding the state of matters is to vote for a representatives. Often, these representatives will present similar ideas to the voters just to garner their support. Once they are in office, they simply would want to pursue their own agendas: staying in office. And they would take great pains to achieve this; even if it means that they cant represent their voters.
These paragraphs shown clearly how democracy is merely a tool used by the powerful. It clearly illustrated how it would be used to fight wars that did not even affect the population of that nation-state directly. The powerful also stayed in power by keeping the ‘inferior’ the way they are. In a great sense, it is just a tool as much as communism to keep the powerful, well, powerful.
