Indeed,democracy is one of the most advanced and best political theories so far,but in my opinion,democracy can also create instability in some ways.
Everyone is unique and independent from others and thus it is inevitable that not all people can agree on the same political opinion or policy.There must be proposition and opposition as well as majority and minority towards an issue.As you have stated that"only the Political Party with the greatest number of votes will be given the mandate of the people to control the government for one political term",which means that only the will of the majority will be executed.In other words,democracy actually deprives the minority of their representation.This can be summarized by a phrase "tyranny of the majority".As quoted from the former president of America,"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."As the name of the phrase itself suggests,as long as the democratic election exists,the voice of the minority can never be heard and their will can never be executed.
More seriously,democracy provides the majority with the opportunity and power to take biased or discriminatory actions on the minority who they consider inferior to themselves within a country.Let's take the America as an example.From 1876 to 1965,the African-Americans were seriously and unfairly discriminated by the Americans due to the difference in skin color.However,despite the strong protests and riots by the African-Americans,the Jim Crow Laws were not abolished until 1965 because of the execution of the will of the majority.Is such a society stable? Of course not.
As such, I believe that as mentioned earlier, democracy is fundamentally wrong philosophically given its unjust nature of the "tyranny of the majority", which many a time results in serious threats to social instability.
aohui
Everyone is unique and independent from others and thus it is inevitable that not all people can agree on the same political opinion or policy.There must be proposition and opposition as well as majority and minority towards an issue.As you have stated that"only the Political Party with the greatest number of votes will be given the mandate of the people to control the government for one political term",which means that only the will of the majority will be executed.In other words,democracy actually deprives the minority of their representation.This can be summarized by a phrase "tyranny of the majority".As quoted from the former president of America,"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."As the name of the phrase itself suggests,as long as the democratic election exists,the voice of the minority can never be heard and their will can never be executed.
More seriously,democracy provides the majority with the opportunity and power to take biased or discriminatory actions on the minority who they consider inferior to themselves within a country.Let's take the America as an example.From 1876 to 1965,the African-Americans were seriously and unfairly discriminated by the Americans due to the difference in skin color.However,despite the strong protests and riots by the African-Americans,the Jim Crow Laws were not abolished until 1965 because of the execution of the will of the majority.Is such a society stable? Of course not.
As such, I believe that as mentioned earlier, democracy is fundamentally wrong philosophically given its unjust nature of the "tyranny of the majority", which many a time results in serious threats to social instability.
aohui
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