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Democracy Hypocrisy

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We are always hearing how wonderful Democracy is. All I have to say is ‘Ba Humbug’. Democracy is supposed to be a form of government that reflects and expresses the voice of the majority of citizens. The administration is supposed to be fairly elected representatives who represent the desires of  the majority of citizens living in their designated geographic regions.

Let’s really be honest and admit the above is not happening at all. First, our representatives are, more often than not, put into power by a minority of citizens. This happens because a huge percentage of people, for good reason, do not trust those who are running to be politicians; so they do not even bother to vote. Why vote if nobody running can, or will do the job properly? What’s the point in having the best of the worst? And besides, what does a person’s single vote achieve anyway? Have you ever heard of a politician winning or losing by one vote?

I know some of you are saying,”If you can do better, then why don’t you run for politics?”. Come on, let’s not kid ourselves -try! Are you rich or have a major benefactor, are you a celebrity, do you have family in politics, and will the other party members support you unless you do what they want; regardless of what the majority of citizens want. Who is kidding who? Politicians are an ‘old boys club’, even the young ones! They are also people who are able to say YES to everyone to get their vote, and then once in power vote NO, or vice versa.

The next problem, is we have ‘party’ systems in which our representatives vote for what the party leaders want, not what the the citizens want. It is not much different than a dictatorship, except we go through the motions of having fair representation and voting. Everyone including the media make it look like everything is above-board, at least until there is a scandal of some sort. But we all know who will win in the end, usually big business and the politician’s pet special interest groups – certainly not the majority.

You might want to think about what I have said the next time you hear someone get on their ‘high horse’ about how wonderful Democracy is. Although, it could be, if most of our politicians were honest and had any real integrity!

The Business of Education

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We have all heard the mantra that if we want to be successful we need education – the more the better. Well folks, that is not quite true; just ask the waiter in the next restaurant you go to. We now have a population of over-educated, frustrated, in debt young people. They paid for an education that is not providing the employment they anticipated. In fact that employment is not even available, because there are too many people trained for ‘this or that’ profession. And even those who did get employed are working for lower wages, because of the effect of the ‘law of supply and demand’ around the numbers of over educated wannabes. Our young people are getting screwed. They cannot even get jobs in the trades, even though we are constantly told there are not enough tradespeople. What’s going on?

The truth is that education has become big business and is fully supported by government because it temporarily keeps the unemployment statistics down. Colleges and Universities are offering hundreds of seats for courses leading to jobs they know do not exist. They also know that almost half of their students will not complete the programs they have paid for, but the administrators do not have the ethics to make that fact commonly known. Why? Because they want the money to fund their elaborate facilities and overpaid professors and themselves. Those guys are living off the system without conscience, it is status and ego that drives them more than anything else. I guess you can’t totally blame them after spending years and years getting a degree in something that the only thing you can do is talk ‘no end’ about, and not much else.

The only thing that nobody seems to realize, or want to talk about, is that we are developing a society of disgruntled citizens who are fearful of the future and have little faith in anything, including their futures. Do we, you and me, our governments and business leaders think this is a good thing? Why is nothing being done about it? Do we all think this makes for a healthy world? Okay educators, if you really care, let’s wake up and say/do something about it !