The failing democracy

The democracy is in quandary. The value it manifests- particularly right to choose a free leader, freedom of press or defiance- are under wallop and in retreat throughout the globe. Some decades ago, with the end of the cold-war, it apparently seemed that totalitarianism had been annihilated and democracy had won the ideological battle.

Today, the democracy largely seems to be tyrannized and enfeebled. The challenges sprouting within the democratic states has fueled the rise of populist leaders and give absolution to fundamental civil and political liberties. Worst of all, young people, who have dainty memory against the long struggle of fascism, may lose out faith in the democracy project. The proliferation of autocratic practices globally is not merely a setback for the rights or freedom, but it poses economic and security risks. With more countries becoming autocratic and repressive, it dents the relations with other countries and crumbles the treaties/alliances.

The past year instances have provided ample evidences that undemocratic rule can be catastrophic regional and global stability. In Myanmar, the politically dominant military conducted a barbarian campaign of ethnic eradicating the Muslim Rohingya community. Nearly 6,00,000 people have been push out, while others killed. The refugees have become burden to an already frangible Bangladesh. Sudan is at a familiar deadlock, subject to the whims of a brutal military regime after a coup. North Korea one of the most oppressive and a menace to global peace has been fortifying its nuclear arsenal in an attempt to build up world’s most repressive and criminal regime.

Democracy, undoubtedly, is the most better form of governance, which generally remains the world’s wealthiest societies, open to new ideas, egalitarian and least corrupt. The autocratic regimes clearly recognize that to maintain power at the home, they must quell open debate and pursue dissents. It is imperative for nations intermediate level of institutions of non- fanatic deliberation amongst the citizens.