THE WEST’S DEMOCRATIC CONTRADICTIONS
They sit on high, justifying attacking, undermining, criticizing and perhaps even invading nations for the sake of their citizens who they feel compelled to free so that they can enjoy the best political system that could ever be envisioned. But how true is this assertion and therefore how justified are these elites in interfering in other nations as they do with virtual impunity?
There are several major contradictions in the premises these elites live by when it comes to surveying the world in terms of being lesser than they and their “enlightened” values and systems.
The first contradiction in the West’s determination to bring democracy to everyone is the inconsistent nature of their regime change strategy. Theocratic dictatorships are apparently exempt (at least if they are allies of the West). The citizens of Saudi Arabia for instance can apparently be left out of the equation which it comes to the desperate need to spread democracy far and wide. The same goes for other allies of the West in the Middle East such as Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait.
However, Iran, also a partial theocracy, but a nation where its citizens can and do vote freely for those they favor in Iran’s political hierarchy, is deemed a suitable case for regime change.
This inconsistency must at the very least cast doubt on the saintly principles which western elites profess to have about bringing freedom and democracy to all. It contradicts the image of consistency in superior moral stances in which they like to portray themselves. This becomes particularly evident when they supply a theocratic dictatorship such as that in Saudi Arabia with advanced weaponry with which to pound a poverty-stricken nation like Yemen back into a Stone Age they were already precariously close to.
But let us look at a much wider and more overarching contradiction or two within the western political system which professes itself to be perfect.
How is it doing currently in respect of the coronavirus pandemic? How is it doing by comparison with China for instance?
In the West, within the oh-so perfect system of democracy you usually have two primary parties who tend always to be contradicting each other. This latter has been the case until relatively recently when it has become more normal for both parties to attempt to occupy the business-friendly middle ground on most issues with differences relegated to specific side issues on which they fight incessantly. The worst excesses of big business tend not to receive much attention, quite the opposite, these are encouraged to grow the economy and to nestle ever closer elite to elite with those in upper political circles. meanwhile the average voter can be forgiven for thinking his or her vote is almost worthless as his or her problems appear to stay forever irrelevant.
The constant fighting between the two primary parties and the in-fighting inside them to gain power creates an ongoing atmosphere of chaos where disagreement stifles forward progress and a four year merry-go-round political cycle means much that the earlier occupant of power did, is undone.
How many voters in such a system truly believes the political class and their system works to his or her benefit and not for the benefit of the elites of the business class?
Compare the chaos in the West with the decade upon decade progress of China. There the kind of democracy seen in the West is surplus to requirements. The ethos of benefiting all citizens is embedded in the foundations of its political system. The Communist Party of China is solely responsible to the people of China and is duty bound to fulfill its responsibilities. It must do this or face the consequences in terms of declining support and rising protest. It does not have the option of leaving power and promising to be better next time. (China does have three or four minor political parties outwith the mighty communist party but they mostly provide a different point of view while working closely with the CPC.)
China’s leadership, with the welfare of all their citizens in mind acted swiftly to counter the coronavirus pandemic once its danger was realized. Building two complete hospitals in two weeks and organizing a comprehensive project to contain the virus was something the West could never manage.
China has shown it has the capacity to react with alacrity in the presence of threat to its people. Experts say the present pandemic will certainly not be the last or most severe. And this is not the only threat, climate change will certainly produce much more devastating effects if present trends continue. Only nations like China who have a strong command economy planned for the benefit of all with motivation at every level to behave in a dutiful manner to their populations will be capable of facing such threats.
China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has shown by comparison what a divided and dysfunctional mess the West is in, at least in respect of its two most belligerent nations, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Yet China is very definitely a regime change target. Listen to Mike Pompeo on the subject in recent weeks and months and Biden’s foreign policy is unlikely to waver from that advocated by Pompeo.
Russia, with has many more elements of western democracy than China and the Middle Eastern states the West loves so much, yet could be said to have been number one regime change target for at least a decade and a half. She is stable currently due mostly to the leadership qualities of her president and the popularity of his party. However, if western elites get their way this could change and see Russia descend into the kind of hyper-chaos of the political sphere all too evident in the West. In my opinion, in order to be safe from this eventuality Russia ought to move toward the Chinese model with Putin’s party United Russia amalgamating with Russia’s opposition party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The future is full of threat. In my view, as a species we can no longer afford the chaos that western political systems engender. We need enlightened, unified leadership that puts the everyday man and woman on the street in the position of highest priority, not big business, a leadership based on sound principles, detailed planning, good science and the promotion of the public good.
The last thing the world and its people need is the political world of the West that resembles a battlefield where the warring interests of those with conflicting ambitions take pride of place, where power-hungry, self-interested politicians constantly look over their shoulders at their donors rather than to the voters, there only to be stimulated on one or two issues come election time.
The inherently divisive, hugely fractured so-called democratic system of the West will be totally unable to face what’s coming. It is an anachronism stemming from a barbaric past whose time limit has long expired if we are to have the kind of civilization on our planet we have surely all dreamed of.
Therefore I find that western elites are NOT justified in looking down their noses at political systems which do not reflect the same principles of their own. They should learn a little humility, look to their current abject failures, consider how they might improve themselves rather than others... and face at last the inherent contradictions that prove that their regime change interventions are neither noble nor justified but are in fact self-interested crimes against humanity.
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