Democracy: Destined For Downfall

                Democracy has been around for centuries. Democracy is a great system of government to have. It is good, but it is also bad. Democracy tends to fail quite a bit. We can’t have a democracy when all of our leaders are greedy and corrupt. If we had a “true” democracy, the people would really have a say in what happens. Our government is technically a republic with only a select few higher up people.

                What I think John Adams was getting at was this; do not be surprised if the government system fails in the future. Being an intellectual person, John Adams probably studied the world and how the people in the world responded to different situations in their political government. He knew about all the other governments in the world that tried democracy but went corrupt and turned to a monarch, communistic, or some other type of government. This could eventually happen to the United States. Everyone always talks about how great our government policy is set up, and all the power that we have as a nation. What is power worth when you are in debt and have a government that can’t get anything accomplished?

                I like how John Adams says, “…It is more bloody than aristocracy or monarchy…It soon wastes and murders itself”. I was thinking about this part of his quote when it hit me. Our government is very bloody. All the different politics bash each other and say bad things about the other political parties just so they can get nothing accomplished. All the different people in politics HATE the people of the other party. Why can’t politics be friends to one another and positively criticize each other? They would get so much more accomplished and maybe our government wouldn’t be a political bloodbath. In the second part of the quote where it says, “it murders itself”, is so true that it is terrifying. A democratic government can bring itself to pieces so easily. If it only takes one suggestion  by a political party to cause an explosion of anger and idiotic stress, what would it take to bring the entire system down?

                Egypt, Greece, China, and Rome are all examples of ancient world powers. These countries succeeded greatly in the ancient world. If our government is striving for the same success that these empires had, I believe that we need to make changes, or at least get along in our government systems. Is any government system without flaw? Probably not, but with flaw there is room for improvement. Hopefully our nation can improve instead of crumble.