This day's LLA lecture about democracy was interesting and shocking at the same time. Most of the "democratic" countries turned out to be fake. The story about overthrowing Chavez due to his citizen-friendly policies was quite hideous. Rab's lecture on Venezuela truly turned around my image on Chavez. Before this day, I had the image of him being the evil communist devil. Because I was educated under an American educational system, Chavez being the opposition of freedom and democracy was imprinted in my mind. When my teacher drew a portrait of Chavez, he was actually portrayed with two horns sticking out of his head with a freaky grin. How can I avoid having a bad image of him if he was represented so malevolent? However, I need to admit that I was simple-minded to easily accept the image that they illustrated despite my deficiency of knowledge of what he had actually done.
The lecture made me question about this country's democracy. Is Japan a democratic country? Japan explains that it has become democratic ever since the defeat of World War II and the control of GHQ. Yes, it does have a democratic constitution. Yes, the Japanese citizens do elect the House of Representatives which points out the prime minister. However, the Japanese people's opinions are hardly reflected in the nation's political policies. For example, the dispute over nuclear energy. Despite the surpassing number of the people who are opposed over the people who are for, the government still continues to rerun the nuclear power plants. The ongoing protests and voices of objections continues to be neglected.
Well, I don't expect anything good from the present corrupt government anyways...
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