One democracy saved, one to go

World’s largest democracy shows signs of returning to her great secular past, a triumph of humans abolishing royalty and simultaneously integrating religions at scale, something that has never been seen in human societies. Then it fell into hard times, as a religious autocrat took control of its psyche and twisted it so as to impart pain on a large population. The senile leader has no idea of Indian history, his speeches and mumblings paralleled another idiot in the West who sports the same color, albeit on his skin. Such was the distress in democracies in the East and the West, some feared the loss of democracy world over. The religious autocrat has been held back, but not fully, but in a few years, the youth and agnostics of India will come and clean out the garbage in Delhi.

One democracy saved, albeit barely, and in five months, we have another to save. It is in the opposite side of the World, spinning in distress of declining environment, and the education and health of its occupants. In this great country, unfortunately, skin color dominates. If you don’t reflect enough sunlight, you are automatically considered inferior and nearly half the country appears to have bought into the idea. A man, who apparently aced the dementia test, is leading in spite of 34 felony convictions and twice that on the docket, the progression of which are slowed down by his faithful appointees and the great men of the Supreme Court, hoping that he will pardon himself once elected, an idea that will be so foreign to any thinking human anywhere in the World. This is likely more difficult to save but we have to give it a try.

In less than 150 days, the great human experiment in integration and innovation could be all but over. The difficulty in forecasting how the country would evolve, led the founders creating a system in which the majority will always lose, and they will be rendered powerless to change the system. Such is the comedy of democracy that an election in which 55% of the country votes for one and the rest another, but the latter wins.

The country has to take what it has been given and attempt to reject those who want to kill democracy.