Democracy and elections.

This the title of the social assignment. I found it was very suitable and meaningful for the blog so I revised and edited the ariticle partly and decided to post it in my blog. The article is about the briery and other distractive nonsense during some elections may hinder the democratic process in human's society.

Elections are recognized as a symbol of the democracy (electoral democracy), but current situations of elections especially in the Asia are hindering progress in democracies somehow.

Firstly, in electoral process, citizens vote for their ideal representatives in governments or parliaments. It is really displaying the spirit of democracy (like the author said, every voters think of their own best candicates who can represent their command in politics and serve for their requirement), the representatives control the group of people’s political power reflected on various conferences they participate in. But there is a problem in reality which makes the democratic system not as good and effective as we expected. Because the representatives may have self desire, probably they may abuse the political power which belongs to his people in fact and disobey their pledge and promises in elections. It is easy and convenient for them to satisfy their own requirement such as money, lands and many others. If so, the electoral process and its result, representative system may hinder the progress of democracy.

Secondly, bribery is a poison in the electoral process and may cause serious corruption of the whole political system including democracies. Some particular political parties tend to offer financial benefits and other entertainment to attract voters’ attention and induce them to vote for themselves (like in the article, ‘the pasar malam creates a happy place for families to enjoy themselves, selling from VCDs to clothes and snacks’ a party official said). Therefore, the result of the elections become the consideration of citizens own benefits in the elections and actually irrelevant to the politics itself as well as democracy (since the citizens are not considering rationally on the political power). In the other word, the result of the elections is not representing citizens’ willingness on politics, and those eventual winners had better to go to some entertaining TV programs because they are really good at that. Party is used to describe the election time in Indonesia and many other places ( reference from the article).

Moreover, these particular political parties’ behavior is disrespecting the politics, democracy and citizens’ power which should be very solemn. Instead the serious atmosphere, the whole elections more tend to be a happy party ,‘it can’t be completed without rock bands, gyrating daugdut singers ’and so on, they avoid serious talk and the view is that will bore the visitors, but that’s the interests and focus in the political elections. It will cheat the citizens’ awareness and making them insensitive to the politics. After winning with these illegal and illegitimate means, they do whatever they want for their self satisfactions and decay the nation, corrupt the political system and influence the citizens’ life consequently.

So, we can see the electoral progress can hinder the democracy in many aspects. It doesn’t mean the electoral system is not available in human society. It just refers to our problem when committing the elections and democracy.