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Written by Muhammad Natsir Tahar
All who speak of democracy,
they have lied. There is no power in the hands of the folk. There never was. Power
belong to the winners. The folk are only the owners a piece of coupon that
noise themselves outside of the palace fence. Next is the oligarchs. The winners
take all.
Even there is democracy,
this thing has multiple sexes. Biology calls it hermaphrodite. Democracy
is on the one hand paired inside one body with oligarchy of different types. Oligarchy
as group of people who feel entitled to regulate every single thing. Or people who
are still nostalgic with feudal age.
They claim to be
the state, even though they are only people who have been lent by the folk –their
lord- to the state. If in ancient Athens the birthplace of democracy, these
people could be recalled at every single time or fired without having the right
to ask why folk do that.
Democracy is absolutely
heavy, look for other names first or at least don’t mention it frequently. Democracy
is a biggest bullshit of centuries, unless that its meaning is narrowed to the
extent of verbal leniency and a five-year lottery ritual. Even in Athens
itself, the ancestor of democray was born with invalid. They had kicked of
slaves and woman out of their holly circle of their masculine democracy.
All of leaders
potentially become Nero or Caligula, if there’s no outside balancing power. Although
the ways once created for example in ancient Mesopotomia, there is primitive
negotiating government, king needed to be passed by a council.
Magna Carta (June
15, 1215) created because there were rival powers from Pope and Baron. King
John of Britain trembled to sign on this great charter when faced with the fact
that half of his strength was stripped. Magna Carta is a legal procedure that
king’s arbitration will conflict with the law.
But feudalism recurred
again until The Black Death by the rat mice carrying bubonic plagues in 1346, farmers
already have bargaining position and asserted their rights. The monarchy was
thinned when parliament members (all opposition) began to be formed as a sign
of democracy.
Democracy can not
formed directly like when it was
discussed at the Agora or Acropolis, so that we need parliament. In philosophy of democracy parliament degrees are
above the emperor or president, but Trias Politica has opened the pathway for
peace so that are equal.
To take philosophical
values of democracy, we have People's Consultative Assembly (MPR): supposedly the
highest state institution that can fire a president. Unfortunetly in presidential
system – which somehow we imitated The United State of America that already mature
and pragmative- disrupt how democracy works.
Maybe because don’t
believe in, so that we have to work twice: the president is elected directly by
people. This process in particular was a long episode which helped to complicated
the utopia of democracy.
We finally see parliament
members as people of same rank who lower their shoulders before the palace. They
erased the memories that folk had glorified them as representative oversee power.
Instead, they are competing to be lackey for the person they are suppose to be
staring at, by becoming Cabinet Ministers.
Position of
minister is on the president’s knees and they need to bend down over and over
so that they can get it. But in front of their folk they strongly speak: we
have this voice and we should get this many ministers.
Don't the folk
want to be suspicious, democracy has been insulted in such a way. It turns out
that the cabinet minister’s position is something they want the most. Is it
true whispers, the ministry can be a money machine for party coffers? In the
end, the folk's money of 25 trillion for electoral rituals 2019 only produce
creatures fighting over the minister's chair.
Anti-corruption
institution must conduct a deep investigation the mode and motives behind the
passion to get minister position. How importance that achievement, if the
actually purposes is realy pure duty, the door should be opened widely to only
figures who are actually professional in their field without being bothered by
political intrigue.
The winners take
all. Remember this term, somehow I imagine the face
of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwean who won much bigger. Once upon a
time, in January 2000 in Harare city, the Zimbabwe Banking Operation (Zimbank) conducted
a lottery that was open to tens of thousands of customers with balances above
15,000 Zimbabwe dollars.
In a dramatic and
tense atmosphere, the famous MC Fallot Chawawa who read about the winner as if super
supprised: the winner of lottery of Z$100,000 was His Excellency RG Mugabe. An extraordinary
coincidence.
Mugabe is not
lacking in any way, he can raise the salaries of himself and the ministers howsoever
he want. But victory should be celebrated including by manipulated the lottery.
Among 94 percent people
who unemployed and suffering the terrible cholera in the world, they have
calculated how much they got for their oligarchic group while announced
statistics of achievement that are entertaining full of lied.
Dictator of
Mugabe is the worst combination when democracy and morals really don’t work. We
have a little bit relieved because we
still have democracy, despite having multiple sexes. Power is never in the hands
of the folk, power belong to the winners. ~MNT
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