Democratic Politics


Chapter : 2. What is Democracy? Why Democracy?

Debating Demerits or Arguments against Democracy

Debating Demerits or Arguments against Democracy :
There are, however, certain people who find faults with democracy and point out many demerits in it.
1. In a democracy, the leaders go on changing with every new election so all this change leads to instability.
2. In order to fund their elections, the leaders once elected begin to amass wealth for the next elections. So such a practice leads to corruption.
3. In a democracy, it takes a long time to get a law passed by the legislature. All this leads to delays.
4. Some people argue that democracy is the rule of the majority which means the rule of the ignorant people.
5. In order to win elections, the different political leaders make false promises and cheat the people. Thus there is no scope for morality in democracy. They would rather prefer religious leaders to run the government.
6. There are others who say that there is lack of discipline in democracy and hence the government should be run by the army.
All the above arguments against democracy are true to some extent but they are not all true. A true democracy is far from the above defects and the different arguments given against democracy do not stand the test of reality. Let us take these arguments against democracy one by one.

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