Group Discussion

Though democracy might be overly ideal, and seemingly it makes far too many assumptions to be achievable. I think if this system of governance can survive generations and still exsits on the international political stage or theorically, there must be a reason for it. In fact, the majority of worldwide nations have governments that are democratic in some way. Why is this so? This is because people can defend their interests at the best. In the system of democracy the government abides the rules to rule the people, and the people have their votes to limit the power of the government. This is about power balancing and inter-monitoring. When this balance is tilted, people on the lesser side will naturally feel insecured. The result can be as severe as riots that happened in Singapore in the 1960s.