World’s Parliamentary Democracy is in Danger.
T oday everyone is backing their voting rights and showing it as the essential tool to let others listen to them. Taking full advantage of their democratic freedom is fine, if any, as it is not a fundamental right. But, is it all about votes now? Is it all about winning an election?
Elections are held all over the world all the time, as per the current trend every time an election is held the democracy wins. However, the worlds GDP (3.5%) abase the parliamentary democracy system. This is not why the system was adopted in the first place. Consider your income only grew 3.5% every year, will you be happy with that? No, certainly not. Then why following a system that doesn’t produce higher returns? The worlds GDP is ebbing every year, and there is no sign of anything positive as such. Only a few countries are getting a good GDP number of 6–7% — India and China. Let’s for a moment consider the system a successful one at present in India, China, and other countries who consistently get more than 5% GDP. However, there are around 190 plus countries who are not getting similar numbers, and this means the success ratio of the system is meager. On the other hand, both India and China are not happy with the numbers and rightly so. Again come back to the same hypothesis — if there is an increase of 7% in your net income, are you a happy man? No, again.
Moreover, multilateral organizations are having a hard time keeping up with the dispute the countries have. E.g., WTO’s tribunals are busy settling the past year’s conflicts, and they are unable to cope up. Even globalization has backfired — Trump imposing traffic on aluminum and steel clears that cloud, it’s not just the USA almost all the countries are increasing the traffic or in other words trying to import less. India used to export more than 30% of the worlds total export for more than 1500 years. But, today India contribution to the world trade is
Rajiv Dixit once said, “You can change the driver whenever you wish so, but the problem is in the car.” The car is the problem, no matter who drives, it will not run smooth enough. It’s not the vote that will change the future. The system will.
