VIOLENCE IS THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY AND WARS DO NOT PROMOTE DEMOCRACY...

Democracy is not just the right to vote...

Democracy is:

• Economic opportunities for all to work and have a decent living... Hungry kids, homeless people, and unemployed are cracks within "democracy"...
• Education opportunities fro all... Elite universities like Harvard and Yale and Stanford, to name just few... are cracks within "democracy"...
• Election donations to candidates... are cracks within the "democratic" system... the more you pay the better your chances of having what you want... In fact, election donations are another facet of bribery... and not "democratic"...
• Police violence... is a huge crack within the "democratic" system... especially if the police force and police-people are tainted with biases and racism and profiling... When unarmed African Americans and poor people are killed by police for whatever the reason and pretext is...
• Universities tolerating rape so as their reputation will not be harmed... Their reasoning... "who wants to attend the rape-university...?" is another huge crack within the "democratic" system...
• Gender bias and gender inequality is another big crack within the "democratic" system...
• Discrimination against immigrants is yet another crack within the system...

Now add all these cracks...definitely the sum will indicate at most a dysfunctional "democracy: at best or not "democratic' at all as the case may be...

The result is disenchantment and Afghanistan type upheavals... Hong Kong type student protests... Ukrainian type wars... and Ferguson type violence...

The result is disenchantment that leads to a "non-voting" MAJORITY... 

In the U.S. mid-term election Republicans won, but Obama shrewdly minimized the impact and in a moment of truth suggested the two-third of the electorate DID NOT PARTICIPATE in the elections...

So let us do the math... ONLY one-third of the electorate voted... and even if the Republicans, or to that matter Democrats..., won by let assume by a 75% landslide, which is a huge exaggeration, then actually the winners have received only 25% of the electorate...

Of course they will justify and declare that everyone had the opportunity...to vote... But I listed some of the reasons why people do not vote... The cracks add up... the cracks create disillusion... and disenchantment... and abstaining from voting... since whether Democrat or Republican, whether conservative or liberal, whether Torys or Labour... whether the socialist Big Brother or conservative Big Brother... as long as the system has cracks like the list above... then the "democratic" system is dysfunctional... 

One Big Brother can blame the other Big Brother... CNN can blame Fox... The BBC can blame Radio Liberty/Voice of America... Putin can blame the non-Putins... and China can blame the West and Japan can blame the Tsunami... 

The cracks demonstrate that the system is dysfunctional... and then... 

YOU CANNOT EXPORT "DEMOCRACY"... "DEMOCRACY IS NOT A COMMODITY"...                   READ THE NEWS...................................

1) Two NATO Troops, 6 Civilians Killed in Afghan Bombings... The attacks came a day after a suicide bomber killed dozens at a volleyball tournament.

CHECK THE BOMBS...YOU CANNOT BOMB PEOPLE INTO "DEMOCRACY"

24 November 2014 – A brutal terrorist attack which killed at least 50 civilians in Afghanistan over the weekend is an “atrocity” and may amount to a war crime, the top United Nations envoy to the country declared today as he condemned the indiscriminate suicide bombing in “the strongest terms.”

On 23 November, a suicide attacker detonated an improvised explosive device in a sports field in the Yahyakhail district of Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktika. At least 50 civilians who were attending a volleyball match were immediately killed while another 60 were injured. According to reports, many children were among the dead and injured.

This is NOT Ferguson...Missouri 

An Afghan shop owner carries a water container as he attempts to extinguish a raging fire at the central market of Mazar-i-Sharif late on November 14, 2014. More than 200 shops were destroyed ...

Suicide bomber kills 45 in Afghanistan 

At least 45 people were killed and 60 others wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd watching a volleyball match in the Yahyakhil district of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika province, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.

The bombed stadium in Afghanistan becomes a crime scene...

"Democracy" can neither be created by bombs nor be enforced by troops... independent of the flag they are carrying...

NATO HAS FAILED IN IRAQ...IN AFGHANISTAN... AND CHINA WILL FAIL IN HONG KONG AND RUSSIA WILL FAIL IN THE UKRAINE...

2) Lawmaker 'Long Hair' among 80 arrested amid clashes at Hong Kong protest site...

YOU CANNOT IMPOSE DEMOCRACY BY POLICE... IF THE HONG KONG STUDENTS AND YOUTH FEEL DISENFRANCHISED... THEY HAD A DISCUSSION WITH THEM... AMEND THE SYSTEM...
WHAT IS BIG BROTHER AFAIRD OF...?

3) Ferguson errupts in violence...

African Americans feel left out... disenfranchised... 

Police are accused of racist discrimination and stereotyping   

...and this is not Afghanistan...This is Ferguson, Missouri...burning

...Youth are rioting... 

 Bricks thrown at police, 2 police cars burned, gun seized by police. Tonight was disappointing.
When people are resorting to violence... then it means the cracks within the system are EXTRA huge...It means a dysfunctional... "democracy"...

The U.S. will Increase Military aid to Ukraine...

On the anniversary of the first protests to break out in Kiev’s Maidan Square, Ukrainians are still struggling to make sense of their year of chaos. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, currently visiting Kiev, is expected to announce an increase in non-lethal military aid to the embattled country’s armed forces. But the NEWLY elected legislators, like Senator John McCain are demanding that America offer lethal weapons instead...

Exporting arms will at most... defeat Russia... BUT WHAT ABOUT DEMOCRACY...?

It looks like people are opting for... "Our cracks are cuter than your cracks..." theory...

Even the Pope wants a share of the pie...

Pope Francis was greeted by the President of the European Parliament...

 "The absence of mutual support within the European Union runs the risk of encouraging... solutions which fail to take into account the human dignity of immigrants, and thus contribute to slave labour and continuing social tensions."At the European Parliament, he spoke of a need to reinvigorate Europe, describing the continent as a "grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant" and saying it risked "slowly losing its own soul".

Europe thrives on immigrants from Africa and Middles east and India and Pakistan...

The U.S. thrives on immigrants from Latin America and the rest of the world...

the exploitation if immigrants is yet another HUGE CRACK... within "democracy"...

My hope is that a new generation will realize and plug the holes, repair the cracks... and may be establish new democratic norms... where people abstain from violence and Big Brothers do not lead countries into wars...

Our Money and GREED based culture suffocates democratic norms... and leads us into war after war after war...

Wars do not permit democracy to flourish...

Police violence can just buy more time for the Big Brothers...in Russia and China and the West...