3/18/2008

Democracy is Hypocrisy

Let me remind you of the fact that American presidency has been governed by Bush and Clinton dynasty for a score of years starting from George Bush Senior's presidency in 1989. Plus, taking into account that Senior was the vice president of Reagan administration, and suppose Hillary takes the Oval Office in 2009 (and in 2013), it's gonna be over a generation!!

No wonder Barack Obama has enjoyed such huge supports all over the US until the recent defeats in Texas and Ohio. Obama's campaign has been characterized by two key words: change and hope. Until recently, it seemd to work. However, now it is himself and his campaign strategy to change. Otherwise, his speech only sounds only hopeless. Yes You Can.

Democracy is hypocrisy. It is not democracy but farce that Putin solidified his czar in Russia. Also, as seeing helpless fights (it's not even discussion!!) over the governor of Bank of Japan and the extension of "temporary" tax in the Japanese parlianments, politicians are just wasting time, and not listening to the voices from its voters and the world. During the Bush and Clinton dynasty, Japan has had 12 or so prime ministers. Considering Britain had only four prime ministers, Thatcher, Major, Blair, and Brown now, the cause of such shuffling rumbling political leadership in Japan is not in political system itself.

Plato was right in the case of Japanese democracy.

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