This country has never been ideal for those who had been deprived of their rights..because admittedly,we are dominated by elite families who have gone thru a lot of years in manipulating us,even in the electoral process…Those landlords or landowners who are presumed to have the capacity and ofcourse,the RESOURCES to run for an office are just playing safe!
they took power in order to sustain,retain and expand their interests,unfortunately..that is the reality!

now, are we democratic? or it’s just a defense mechanism for those who are in power?

reflect,then ask yourselves!

godbless!

aristocracy is probably more effective and i believe to be the natural order.

look on the animal kingdom. peaceful coexistence only happens when one rules the group (say, alpha dog for a pack, queen bee for a swarm, queen for the army of ants etc etc)

and look at how the oldest (the most sustainable) organizations on Earth were managed – Church, the Muslims, military, chinese business, monarchs and even the Apostles, etc etc. are they in “democratic form”?

i however believe in the democratic dynamics specifically in “grabbing solutions through collective effort (or we say teamwork) effort” but, i think, the majority (or the followers) had gone “democrazy” and exceeded their role/contribution in nation-building, likely leveling up with the leaders who are intellectually superior than the majority.

even in little classroom teams, when everybody gets his/her ideas imposed and be adopted, the team project often ends up with an average or failing grade.