Legislating Democracy

I have a real distrust of the west's global "encouragement" of democracy. Putting aside the inherent duplicity of the objective for a moment (your freedom at the end of my gun), democracy can and will be shaped by its cultural context. It stands to reason that if a monarchy changes to a democracy, its society will vote in the king, and pay the king the homage he expects. He may be called Prime Minister, or President, and it may even be a different person in office, but there is little fundamental change to the structure of power. And if we're trying to have democracy in a global sense, then unique interpretations of democracy need to be allowed.

That's not to say that I endorse oppression by any form of leadership. I don't. On the other hand, every system finds a way to marginalise someone.

My opinion is the west's interference in foreign nations' governmental structure is simply another way to destabilise them. For example, if we had a stable, organised Middle East, its power would increase immeasurably due to the monopolisation of the world's energy. Playing each country against each other like pieces on a chess board keeps things favourably unsettled.

The west has made the somewhat arbitrary decision that all countries should employ democracy/capitalism, which on the surface sounds good. But its real aims are much more nebulous.