Iran IS Democracy

Iran IS Democracy

Has there ever been a Democracy that has risen up in peace to become an effective machine for social governance? The forces of Western Capitalist Globalization never weary of pushing forward the ongoing French and American Revolutions of Democracy, but we are never given any sense that we can expect any real practical benefits. We are left to understand that ‘Freedom’ is supposed to be some glorious end in itself. Well, yes, Freedom is great for the Rich who use this Freedom to get Richer. But the typical result of Democracy, and we have seen this everywhere, is for Violence Violence and more Violence. First Revolutions, then Civil Wars, and then Foreign Conflicts as Democracies, once grown so used to Bloodshed, easily find excuses to maintain these Traditions of Freedom. Yes, we are told that Democracies eventually grow sated and peaceful, but frankly we should admit that Democracies never become peaceful while they still run the Governments, but only after they have sold out their Interests to Corporate and International Lobbyist Groups. Only as Eunuchs do they finally lay back and go to fat. Meanwhile, sold out to Private Interests, the World is left with absolutely no Institution to stand up to the Powers of Money. We always hear that only Government must have Checks and Balances; that only in regards to Government is Absolute Power absolutely Corrupting. But all the while we are supposed to believe that Wealthy Transnational Corporations, once they gather all Wealth and Power into their own hands, will be entirely Saintly and totally Benign. Yes, we can all imagine what heroic efforts the Multinational Corporations will take in regards to Global Warming, but not while there is still two cents left to be made off of Carbon Based Fuels.

So, anyway, let us not listen to the Western Talking Heads who insist that Iranian Democracy is still so very immature. They say the same of Pakistan, of Palestine. They said it of the dozen or so bloody Democratic Wars in South America. This talk needs to stop. If Democracy always comes with War and Violence, somebody needs to admit it. If violence is always annexed to Democracy then we need to admit the nature of the Beast, that it is inherently a wild animal.

Why are early Democracies so violent? It is simply because new Democracies are populated by people who still think Government is somehow important. You see, Peaceful Democracy depends upon losing Parties who can take their defeats in good humor, supposing that everything will be just fine without them. Or let us not pretend that people might be thinking exclusively of the good of the state, as we should admit that Office Holders and their Staffs might also be worried about their own livelihoods, even their own safety. In new Democracies, losing Parties are tossed out into the streets along with their supporters and employees. Heated Election rhetoric leads to Criminal Prosecutions for crimes that might have only been alleged for political advantage, from which the Accusers can not manage to ever back down. Losing an election brings both Social and Personal problems for the Losers which are often of tragic proportions.

Is Democracy really such a wonderful institution if it really does largely depend upon so many people so often cheerfully allowing their lives to be tossed aside. Democracy depends upon Good Losers while doing nothing to console them.

Yes, in America and Europe, in the Mature Democracies, the Losing Parties have developed institutions to assure a degree of protection for its Losers. Politicians who have given the Lobbyist Companies everything they have always desired are allowed to hire into the Companies… their reward for having been faithfully corrupt. Or the Lobbyist Companies arrange for Speaking Engagements … $100,000 to speak at an event where 20 people show up to listen; or Lobbyists arrange for the publication of Books which nobody ever reads but where Best Seller status is tallied up as one Lobbyist Branch sells unpacked crates of books back and forth with other Branches. In short, Corruption learns to keep everybody paid off, Winners and Losers. In the New Democracies, where Politicians and Corruption have not yet arranged such cozy relationships, the difference between Winning and Losing is seen as much more serious. Indeed, sometimes actual Polices are changed. Yes, that could never happen in a Stable Democracy where everybody can rest assured that nothing ever changes, especially if the Winner is the Candidate for Change… then there is almost the calculation that nothing should change… so that the Lobbyists won’t get spooked and run away with all their Money.

Then there is the simple matter of the Winning and Losing in Democracies. When will the Propagandists stop talking of People being represented by Democracy. They aren’t. Only the Winners are represented. In Nations where there are significant Ethnic Minorities, Democracy can be the actual end for any hope of influence in Government by these Ethnic Minorities. For instance, in regards to Iraq – that brutal Dictator Saddam Hussein had counsels here and there made up of various Ethnic Minorities, and he even had persons of Ethnic Minority in key governmental positions. All of that ended with Democracy when the Shia were able to get more than 51% of the Vote, enabling them to toss 100% of the Ethnic Minorities both out of Government and out of any position of Social, Political, or Economic influence.

Woodrow Wilson, a Professor before he was President, predicted this about Democracy, that it was incompatible with Ethnic Diversity – that the Rise of Democracy in any particularly wide political jurisdiction would cause almost instantly movements for Political Self-Determination among the various Ethnic Groups. World War II was the biggest example of violence due to Ethnic Self Determination, but the Wars of Ethnic Self Assertion all over the Globe have never ended. All the violence arises from the Fear that some Other Ethnic Group will line up the Majority and make life unbearable. The Authoritarian Bureaucracies never had this problem, as it was perceived that the Bureaucracies were not INTRINSICALLY unfair. But when opposing Political Parties are Ethnically based… well, the concept of ‘fairness’ no longer exists and there we have only the Interests of the Winners against the default of the Losers for whom Democracy offers nothing.

One can be cynical and say that every Democracy, like those of America, Britain and Europe, can finally arrive at peace after they have been entirely sold out to the various Corporate Lobbyists, that, in other words, Democracy can be Peaceful only when it has become entirely negligible and utterly useless, but this may not always be the case. If the Recent Financial Meltdown has taught us anything, it is that Corporations are mindless and incompetent. Yes, while blasé corruption ordinarily keeps voter turnout low, there exist possibilities where rogue adventurers can stir up political foment, either from sincere motives, or simply as a means of broking power that can be cashed in after the Elections. In such instances when the Electorate is whipped into some excited frenzy, there can be rather high voter turnout, as Old People come out to cancel the votes of the Young People, or Male against Female, or Class against Class. But in any case, the Public is polarized into opposing Camps, Political Decisions are made from Emotion or in regards to Appearance and its Appeal to Emotions, and in the end Society is left with almost as many Losers as Winners. And these losers will feel disenfranchised. In Iran they turn to Riot. We need to understand then that Riot is all part of Democracy.

If you have a System that makes Losers out of so many people, you need to acknowledge that it is a serious problem.

We should all rather consider Government by Civil Service Bureaucracy. The Corporate Lobbyists would hate it, but that is perhaps the best argument for it.

And if Iran had set up a Civil Service Bureaucracy, instead of a silly Democracy, they would not be having this problem right now. And one needs to wonder what on Earth they were thinking, to adopt the Same Form of Government as that of the Great Satan which they pretended so much to abhor. Iran needs to stop simply calling America ‘evil’ and instead should be looking closely to see from where any such actual evil proceeds… and then focus on not doing exactly the same things. Oh, but I guess they might be supposing that something that Christians can never do right is something that Muslims will never do wrong, that they will be the ones who will finally get Democracy right. Hmmmm. They should probably think again, as it appears they are about to take the same ride as everybody else has – through Revolutions, Civil Wars, Foreign Wars, all so they can finally end up by handing the reins of power over to Corruption and Lobbyists.